#rows

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#bringing #corner #dead #dog #either

Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#child #children #course #future #given

I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#back #beautiful #because #confront #death

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an "old" young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

#beyond #changing #choose #else #get

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid. ↗

— Carl Jung

#always #clear #does #grows #sometimes

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #grows #keeps #never

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #because #grows #happy

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ↗