To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck · Death
The World Motivation
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck · Death
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“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
“When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.”
“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
“Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.”
“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”
“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.”
“Wanting to Die”
“Embrace the probability of your imminent death....and know there is nothing i can do to save you.”
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”
“And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.”
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
“For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.”