#sol

There has seldom if ever a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots. ↗

— Iain Banks

#soldiers #war #heroism

In the desert, the only god is a well. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#desert #desolation #faith #fountain #god

...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#enchantment #unrequited-love #love

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find. ↗

— Robert Anderson

#life #relationship #resolution #death

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#become #find #good #may #next

Life is about solving for x ↗

— Jane Lescarbeau

#mathematics #philosophy #solve #life

Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers. ↗

— Laurie R. King

#life

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team. ↗

— J Allard

#before #company #competencies #console #developed

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office. ↗

— Mike Myers

#factory #mom #office #sold #worked

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#loss #moving-forward #solitude #the-yellow-house #life