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The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away. - Henry Miller (from his novel: Tropic of Cancer)
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. - George Eliot
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop
I hate victims who respect their executioners. - Jean-Paul Sartre
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop
In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.' - Jeff Vandermeer
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi.
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. - Gore Vidal
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
― Roy T. Bennett
If I'm King, where's my power? Can I form a government? Can I levy a tax, declare a war? No! And yet I am the seat of all authority. Why? Because the nation believes that when I speak, I speak for them. But I can't speak. - quote from the film "The King's Speech" (King George VI/ Colin Firth)
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. - George R. R. Martin
“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. - Henry Rollins
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor hugo
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. - Mark Twain
Abstract Idea- A broad, overarching idea which exists only in one’s mind and not concrete reality
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question ‘why did you fall?”
― Dada Bhagwan
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. - Henry Miller
“Get rid of the idea that everyone has to like you! Even if you were the most delicious apple on earth, get real, some people prefer bananas!”
― Richard Spinos
Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips. - Nikolai Gogol
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff. - Eugene Ionesco
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”
― Terence McKenna
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. - Winston Churchill