The things you used to own, now they own you.
Chuck PalahniukThere's never enough of the stuff you can't get enough of.
Patrick H.T. DoyleTags: things wants possessions needs stuff
Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival when he was found worthy of being initiated in her web of wisdom. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: "real things" which were unfrequent and priceless, simply "things" which formed the routine stuff of life; and "ghost things," also called "fogs," such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a "tower," or, if they came in immediate succession, they made a "bridge." "Real towers" and "real bridges" were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though. In some circumstances, in a certain light, a neutral "thing" might look or even actually become "real" or else, conversely, it might coagulate into a fetid "fog." When the joy and the joyless happened to be intermixed, simultaneously or along the ramp of duration, one was confronted with "ruined towers" and "broken bridges.
Vladimir NabokovTags: life things perfect bridges fog nabakov real-things towers
Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.
Andrei PlatonovTags: things
The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention.
Thomas MannTags: things materialism
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.
Thomas MannTags: reading things materialism readers possessions
And these things
that keep alive on departure know that
you praise them; transient,
they look to us, the most transient,
to be their rescue.
They want us to change them completely,
in our invisible hearts,
into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever,
finally, we may be.
Tags: things transformation transience
Procrastination can wait for Tomorrrow.
Michelle MarieTags: things struggle fair internal my all
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan W. WattsTags: reality dance inspiration world change things impermanence flow
Perception and reality are two different things.
Tom CruiseTags: perception reality things tom-cruise
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