"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

Existence, Mind, Quotations, Struggle

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"I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

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"We are products of time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Existence, Product, Time, Creation

"Time is the content of life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Existence, Time, Content, Life, Value

"Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Existence, Truth, Life, Faith

"Passionate embrace your sacred existence."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Existence, Passion, Life, Truth

"No one was created in vain."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Existence, Creation, Value, Purpose

"But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Existence, Life, Time, Memory

"Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?"

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Existence, Mortality, Work, Humor

"Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us."

Donald L. Hicks, American Author

Existence, Life, Creation, Energy

"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"

Rumi, Persian Poet

Existence, Universe, Life, Pleasure, Joy

"Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?"

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

Existence, Madness, Humanity, Philosophy

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"Suspense is worse than disappointment."

Lifestyle

"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."

Friendship

"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."

Identity

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

Politics

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."

Fear

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"

Family

"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."

Character

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"We are products of time."

"Time is the content of life."

"Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice."

"Passionate embrace your sacred existence."

"No one was created in vain."

"Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?"

"Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us."

"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"

"Without madness what is manBut a wholesome beast,Postponed corpse that begets?"

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"Suspense is worse than disappointment."

"The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."

"His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar."

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

"Dare to be honest and fear no labor."

"Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!"

"Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."

"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."

"Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!"

"And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation."