#provoking

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way. ↗

— Hugh Howey

#inspirational #killing #thought-provoking #inspirational

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it. ↗

— Bill Loguidice

#thought-provoking #inspirational

We are all only men, defined by our choices. ↗

— I.E. Castellano

#philosophical #reflective #thought-provoking #inspirational

Every villain is a hero in his own mind. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#awesome #different #hero #hiddleston #inspiring

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#mystery #thought-provoking #inspirational

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. ↗

— Bilal Hussain

#inspirational #philosophy #science #technology #thought-provoking

If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood and make France pariah among the civilized nations of the world. ↗

— Robert Masello

#men

Lead us not into temptation' often means, among other things, 'Deny me those gratifying invitations, those highly interesting contacts, that participation in the brilliant movements of our age, which I so often, at such risk, desire.' Reflections on the Psalms, ch 7 ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#age

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that. ↗

— Maggie Nelson

#loneliness #sadness #thought-provoking #beauty

Some men think because they're afraid to do. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#thought-provoking #courage