#aged

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”) ↗

— George Sterling

#armageddon #darkness #death #death

Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hurting #prayer #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sadness

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. ↗

— Dee Remy

#dying #ego #exhaustion #image #life

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#expectation #letters #packaged

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#great mind #mind #only #overthrown #tragedy

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#events #liars #make #own #people

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism. ↗

— Michael Bay

#amazing #american #everybody #fascinated #harbor

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. ↗

— Martha Beck

#acquaintances #almost #case #coffee #elderly

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. ↗

— Paul Begala

#against #assaults #attacks #blind #blind eye

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#engaged #horizons #i #open #struggle