They talk of hell fire in the material sense. I don’t go into that mystery and i shun it. But i think if there were fire in material sense, they would be glad of it, for, i imagine, that in material agony, their still greater spiritual agony would be forgotten for a moment.
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| — | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected, that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not. And behold, from the other end of the earth perhaps, your prayer for their rest will rise up to God though you knew them not nor they you. How touching it must be to a soul standing in dread before the Lord to feel at that instant that, for him too, there is one to pray, that there is a fellow creature left on earth to love him too. And God will look on you both more graciously, for if you have had so much pity on him, how much more will He have pity Who is infinitely more loving and merciful than you. And He will forgive him for your sake.
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| — | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.
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| — | The Great Gatsby (via dontpassthehouse) |
