quotes about Azrael

“I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world.”

“The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.”

Source : Paulette Jiles (2003). “Enemy Women”

“During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.”

“The future does not really lie in discovering new fragrant raw materials.... In order to endure, haute perfumery is therefore condemned to inventing new olfactory promises...to finding a new form of expression.”

“Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?”

“Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred”

“Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.”

“In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.”

“From my dad I learned to be good to people, to always be honest and straightforward. I learned hard work and perseverance.”

“All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?”

Source : Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1894). “Safar Nameh: Persian Pictures”