I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
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Related You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists ... MUHAMMAD YUNUS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It's a boring kind of thing, really. I think common sense pretty much tells you where it is. RON GARDENHIRE I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pret... HOLLY HUNTER This is one time I had some leverage. It was kind of exhilarating and empowering. BILLIE JEAN KING Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER I think life is a chain of events. ZARA LARSSON I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. MITCH ALBOM Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Eternity before I met you is nothing compared with the eternity of being without you after I have di... PRETTY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK A whisper of selflessness echos boundlessly. AISHA MIRZA Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think we're pretty fearless. We just kind of find a way. Nothing really fazes us. CHRIS DRURY I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I should think it's pretty sophisticated. Any judge with a sense of humor and a very clever man, whi... ANDREW SINCLAIR I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. VERONICA ROTH I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, persevera... RICKY MARTIN I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes awa... JAYE ROBIN BROWN Marlena's body was found on November 19, and so I consider that the anniversary of her death, though... JULIE BUNTIN The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. ROB LIANO It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just ex... BUZZ HARGROVE Evita is a stunning, exhilarating theatrical experience, especially if you don't think about it too ... ANDREW WEBBER Evita is a stunning, exhilarating theatrical experience, especially if you don't think about it too ... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhil... EMMA STONE I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS Selflessness is humility. ... humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free... JEFF WILSON People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA He Is Not Dead I cannot say, and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. MADELINE MILLER I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi... ADAM SILVERA It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou... WALTER MOSLEY But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �... M.M. KAYE When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain. NIKITA DUDANI It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confront... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. ...minimalism in the service of others is a logical extension of the same ethos of selflessness. JOSHUA BECKER It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disori... ADRIENNE RICH I like to think I'm a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilt... GREGORY MAGUIRE If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON [Charlie is dying:] After what seemed a long while, but hadn’t been, Marsh gave Paulette’s ... EDWARD FAHEY Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did. DIABLO CODY I have a condition called selflessness, my father calls it a character flaw. CRISTABEL MICHAELS Wow. That's sort of pretty. In a Jaws kind of way. JIM BUTCHER You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to dut... MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, ... AARON LEVIE We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessn... CLAIRE DANES Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the... ALEXANDER CHASE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast. STEWART STAFFORD Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I'm simpley one hell of a butler. SEBASTIAN MICHEALIS I think being a dragon would be pretty awesome... you get to fly. JOSH KEATON He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather b... JEREMY NORTHAM Selflessness is the highest goal of good leaders. TODD STOCKER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness ... SANDHYA JANE Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of... DANIEL YANEZ Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossibl... LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL
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