{"quotes":[{"text":"What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.","author":"Karl Lagerfeld","tags":["art","capture","fashion-designer","forever","gone","impossible","memories","memory","moment","photo","photography","reproduce","shoot"],"id":35952,"author_id":"Karl+Lagerfeld"},{"text":"Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.","author":"Victor Robert Lee","tags":["men","overestimation","reproduce"],"id":92934,"author_id":"Victor+Robert+Lee"},{"text":"We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there.","author":"Thomas Ligotti","tags":["aberrations","cemeteries","darkness","dying","ghosts","graves","horrors","infinity","madness","obscenities","poison","reproduce","supernatural","survive","uncanny","undead","world"],"id":133620,"author_id":"Thomas+Ligotti"},{"text":"If You're Disappointed Or Lost Something, Don't Stay In That Situation For Long.... Be Like Hydra Which Has Never Die Attitude.... When It Loses One Part of It's Body, It Reproduces Again.... So, Transform Your Pain To A New Birth....","author":"Muhammad Imran Hasan","tags":["attitude","birth","disappointment","hydra","inspiration","inspirational","never-die-attitude","new-beginning","new-birth","reproduce","rise-up","start-over"],"id":192532,"author_id":"Muhammad+Imran+Hasan"},{"text":"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","atheism","atheist","atheists","axiom","axioms","believer","believers","bible","blessing","blessings","child","childfree","childless","children","condom","condoms","contraceptive","contraceptives","curse","cursed","cursing","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","funny","gift","gifts","gnome","gnomes","god","heaven","hell","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","kid","kids","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","newborn","newborns","nonbeliever","nonbelievers","nonverbal","on-the-pill","philosopher","pill","pills","pregnancy","pregnant","procreate","procreation","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","religion","religious","reproduce","reproduction","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","south-africa","south-african","the-pill","thought-provoking","thoughtful","verbal"],"id":270520,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not pleasurable, such as toiling for our subsistence. And then we would not survive. By the same token, should our mass mind ever become discontented with the restricted pleasures doled out by nature, as well as disgruntled over the lack of restrictions on pain, we would omit the mandates of survival from our lives out of a stratospherically acerbic indignation. And then we would not reproduce. As a species, we do not shout into the sky, “The pleasures of this world are not enough for us.” In fact, they are just enough to drive us on like oxen pulling a cart full of our calves, which in their turn will put on the yoke. As inordinately evolved beings, though, we can postulate that it will not always be this way. “A time will come,” we say to ourselves, “when we will unmake this world in which we are battered between long burden and brief delight, and will live in pleasure for all our days.” The belief in the possibility of long-lasting, high-flown pleasures is a deceptive but adaptive flimflam. It seems that nature did not make us to feel too good for too long, which would be no good for the survival of the species, but only to feel good enough for long enough to keep us from complaining that we do not feel good all the time.","author":"Thomas Ligotti","tags":["curse","nature","pain","pleasure","reproduce","reproduction","species","survival","survive","toil","toiling","world"],"id":301168,"author_id":"Thomas+Ligotti"},{"text":"I decided that in spite of my silence I would demonstrate and reproduce in reality the picture of the church that I saw inside my spirit.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["church","decided","demonstrate","heart","i","in-spite","inside","picture","reality","reproduce","silence"],"id":316719,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}