#provoking

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#music #though-provoking #inspirational

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

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

#philosophy #sayings #talk-is-cheap #thought-provoking #wisdom

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

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#feeling #give #love #pain #provoking

What she'd done was give him a glimpse of something that scared the bejesus out of him, something never meant for men like him that could start a hunger that would eat away what little was left inside him that didn't need to be shoved into the dark place. ↗

— Ellen O'Connell

#beauty

Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuses me to think of him pining for you. Aching for what he cannot have. The loneliness in his soul is festering like a wound. There is nothing I could do for him that is worse that what you have already done, my lovely. And I assure you, in his case there will be no cure. ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#love

Hasn’t stopped us before. And besides, if they wanted to kill us, we’d be dead by now and would be having an entirely different conversation. I wonder if I’d still be mad at you, or if we would talk in words or pictures. Maybe in smells. That would be cool.” -Janco ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#afterlife-speculation #funny-and-random #funny-but-true #funny-quotes #humor