“People don't care whether you fall in the dirt or the shit on you. If you get dirty, it's only your fault.”
“When rain finds you in the mountains, celebrate. Nature has favoured you in special ways.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“That moment was when I realized that I was wary of all men, not just those on the official suspect list. I had a deep conviction that anyone could do anything— knowing that people can kill is far different from seeing the proof. I had learned that humanity itself did not have limits. I knew the killer was a man because of the grunt I'd heard that night; so I knew that men, especially, were capable of anything. That night in the hotel, it wasn't so much that I thought my uncle might hurt me. It was that I didn't want to be vulnerable near that violent energy, however deeply buried it might be, however well checked. I thought it was possible that his shyness was a product of shame, or a subconscious disguise. I was sure there was no such thing as an entirely benevolent man.”
Source: After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
“Believing that it is in the human nature to seek truth more than it seeks hope and alleviation, because a few individuals were staunch truth-seekers, is to believe that, because parrots can speak, it is in the nature of the birds to speak!
Heraclitus, Galileo, Darwin, Spinoza, Einstein and a few thousands more against the about 117 billions who have walked the Earth…”
“All in The Mind (The Sonnet)
Mind makes it dark,
Mind makes it bright.
Mind makes us weak,
Mind gives us might.
Mind makes us blind,
Mind gives us sight.
Mind makes us scared,
Mind gives us flight.
Mind makes us greedy,
Mind instills charity.
Mind raises the walls,
Mind wills all unity.
Mind is servant, mind is master.
Once truly aware, mind is hatebuster.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Sapiens Impossible (The Sonnet)
If my existence isn't impossible,
I do not wanna exist.
If my legacy isn't impossible,
I do not want to live.
If my breath doesn't breathe life,
I don't wanna take another breath.
If my veins don't invigorate another,
I have no need for such useless veins.
If my heart isn't proof of love impossible,
May this be the last time my heart beats.
If this being isn't the bridge of oneness,
May the bugs have a feast on some good eats.
I don't wanna live as a weakling of the jungle.
If I must live I'll live as sapiens impossible.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Human remains ... What exactly did that mean? Was it a few hard bones and soft tissue? Clothes and accessories? Things solid and compact enough to fit inside a coffin? Or was it rather the intangible - the words we send out into the ether, the dreams we keep to ourselves, the heartbeats we skip beside our lovers, the voids we try to fill and can never adequately articulate - when all was said and done, what was left of an entire life, a human being ... and could that really be disinterred from the ground?”
Source: The Island of Missing Trees
“You know what they're like."
Mma Ramotswe nodded. She did. They were not all bad, of course. But many of them were awful, which somehow eclipsed the better qualities of some of the nice ones. It was very sad.”
“I am although an astrology amateur, but the Earth turns itself around the star draw of the Fish. So the soul of the Mankind (is) still like the facial expression of a Fish."-- that is all I preserved from the long debate with Julius Caesar.”
Source: Jugend ohne Gott von Ödön von Horváth. Königs Erläuterungen.: Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben mit Lösungen
“To drink poison and deliver elixir is the first nature of a sapiens.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım