Keresés

as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called "real life"

The Earth will not be missed. Through the infinite reaches of space, the problems of man seem trivial and naive indeed, and man existing alone seems himself an episode of little consequence.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

(P.G. Wodehouse)

head i win tails you lose

It looked like the same car, except that forever afterwards it seemed able to do 250 miles on a gallon of petrol, ran so quietly that you practically had to put your mouth over the exhaust pipe to see if the engine was firing, and issued its voice-synthesized warnings in a series of exquisite and perfectly-phrased haikus, each one original and apt.

Late frost burns the bloom
Would a fool not let the belt
Restrain the body?

. . . it would say. And,

The cherry blossom
Tumbles from the highest tree.
One needs more petrol

^{(Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens)}