“And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.” IfsThinkingBelieveWellsKindMeanSaidStillsDiesFeltHappenedBloodOne DayMouthsThings HappenSatSerenity Author:Desmond Tutu
“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.” WayEnoughSeemsRunningDiesForgetBattleMouthsAdvantageFishesExtremesGet AwayLeapPanicHookBellyAnglers Author:Ernest Hemingway
“In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.” DreamBodySeemsDiesKnownThousandMouthsFleshTemptationChocolateBitesTextureGluttonyCulminationDevouringFlutteringGorges Book:Chocolat Source: Chocolat
“I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.” PeopleWellsPlayDiesGamesBornNumbersPromiseMouthsMathematicsProfessionGladBreadMathematicianI PromiseSixteenEpilepsyBlindfolds Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904 Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904