“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.” PeopleThinkingMindCountryDeathDiesLeftForgetGrowingFlowerHonorTerribleMournCotton Author:Charles Bukowski
“the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character.” IfsKnowsWorldSelfCharacterHonorTerribleAppreciationNobleArguingReverenceLackingHonoredRespectable Author:Julia McNair Wright
“Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.” IfsBelieveSoulRunningRiskHonorTerribleDebtShouldersYour SoulLoadYour Honor Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.” MenPersonsMadeWantedFoundNeededHonorTerribleIntegrityAdvantageMalesAstronautGenies Author:Sidney Sheldon
“How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259” IfsThinkingWantMaySeemsPainStrangeHonorTerribleBlessedSignificanceImpermanenceGranite Author:Rachel Naomi Remen