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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 031b029 | All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology. [Johnny Truant] | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 7eefc2e | Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 2e6b500 | In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light. First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final a.. | reading consumption | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 3f91c3f | Also remember, love inhabits more than just the heart and mind. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 62464a5 | my point being, what if my attacks are enterly unrelated attributable in fact to something entirely else, perhaps for instance just warning shocks brought on by my own crumbling biology, tiny flakes of unknown chemical origin already burning holes through the fabric of my mind, dismantling memories, undoing even the strongest powers of imagination and reason? how then do you fly from that path? | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| b2c1d56 | Wake & Bake. More like Wash & Bake. Half a bowl of cereal and a shot of bourbon later, I'm there, my friendly haze having finally arrived. I'm ready for work. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 571d908 | Remember you future counselors and bringers of relief: there will never be a cure for life's problems because so many of tomorrow's problems will be new. Good words, like good work and good thinking, help, even if good words are a lot like highway paint. They can keep plenty of heavy things moving at 70 MPH from going the wrong way. But that doesn't mean life won't cross over if it has to. Learn to avoid the collisions. Find other direction.. | inspirational-quotes sandra-dee-taylor | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| e9006de | Noli me tangere, noli me legere, | solitude loneliness pain loss self-reliance isolation latin | Mark Z. Danielewski | |
| 6776001 | Love's love in her blackest season. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 37c7116 | He is a stem, a husk, barren and thin, withered by sun, erased by wind, emptied by seasons of dullness, marked by seconds of duty, scarred by regret only the faintest of lines dare to write out, which no one, not even him, can interpret anymore. People have told him a crow will reveal more than anything his face has to share. | Mark Z. Danielewski | ||
| 5c88c7b | They are wildflowers. They would not want a name. | wildflowers | Silas House & Neela Vaswani | |
| 90b2c64 | Men to whom God is dead worship one another. | Harry Crews | ||
| 978b89e | I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds, the jell and slime of life shimmering in gravid expectation. Everywhere I looked, life sprang from something not life, insects unfolded from sacs on the surface of still waters and were instantly on prowl for their dinner, everything that came into being knew at once what to do and did it, unastonished that it.. | life vitality | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 8e3e887 | I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child's ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatev.. | father | E.L. Doctorow | |
| 7b364c5 | And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go. | E L Doctorow | ||
| 7f35be0 | I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it. | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 6c7923d | I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| c635933 | None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does. | Connie Willis | ||
| de97001 | That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick. | movies | Connie Willis | |
| 7ca3267 | She said that certain facts are accessible only from one point of view - the point of view of the creature who experiences them. You think she meant that the only shoes we can ever wear are our own. Meg can't imagine what it's like for you to be you, she can only imagine herself being you | Jay McInerney | ||
| 57971fd | We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. | mortality | Colum McCann | |
| e6d3b13 | Pain is not wat you get, it is wat you give. | Colum McCann | ||
| 64bfbe7 | We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think? | winter pain cold | Craig Thompson | |
| 8723437 | We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one more wretchedly alone than the priest who does not measure up to his task. | Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 405b413 | On a scale from one to ten," Captain Krasnitsky muttered, "I give this trip a negative four hundred." -- | David Weber John Ringo | ||
| c308e10 | I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong | religion | George MacDonald Fraser | |
| 0dad679 | They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again. | patience | Danielle Steel | |
| 22d53ab | You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for. | Danielle Steel | ||
| fecf869 | John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him. It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | ||
| 1493395 | We are accustomed to think of ourselves as an emancipated people; we say that we are democratic, liberty-loving, free of prejudices and hatred. This is the melting-pot, the seat of a great human experiment. Beautiful words, full of noble, idealistic sentiment. Actually we are a vulgar, pushing mob whose passions are easily mobilized by demagogues, newspaper men, religious quacks, agitators and such like. To call this a society of free peopl.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 22735e8 | Yes, he knows how to build a fire, but I know how to inflame a cunt. | Henry Miller | ||
| 60a29bd | God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humbles mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise....it [is] the the intimacy with which his eye rests upon the scene. It [is] his Paris. A man does not need to be rich, nor even a citizen, to feel this way about Paris. Paris is filled with poor people - the proudest and filthiest lot of beggars that ever walked the earth... And yet they give the illusion of being at home. It is that which d.. | Henry Miller | ||
| 301c34c | the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal. | Henry Miller | ||
| acfb2b3 | I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision. | Henry Miller | ||
| 656b9d7 | We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not the future. The future always has and always will belong to--the poet. | Henry Miller | ||
| d9e5a91 | He told me was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, " Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars."I was dumbfounded. I didn't even answer him.But that experience also taught me something.Until then, I'd never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts.. | Donald J. Trump | ||
| fc3fcf1 | Since 2001, the U.S. government has abandoned its role as a champion of human rights and has perpetrated terrible and illegal abuses in prisons in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, sent prisoners secretly to other nations to be tortured, denied the applicability of the Geneva Convention restraints, and severely restricted time-honored civil liberties within our own country. Certain political leaders of other nations, who are inclined to perpetrate.. | Jimmy Carter | ||
| 8f99386 | What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men who co-operate smoothly in large groups; who want to consume more and more, and whose tasks are standardized and can easily be influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority, or principle, or conscience - yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected, t.. | herd-mentality groupthink conformity | Erich Fromm | |
| 5574334 | The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual character. On the contrary, the sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology and arranged the means to give satisfactions wh.. | sanity individual pathology originality individualism society insanity | Erich Fromm | |
| 66f1016 | What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow, it decays; if it does not transcend the status quo for the better, it changes for the worse. Often we, the individual or the people who make up a society, have the illusion we could stand still and not alter the given situation in the one or the other direction. This is one of the most dangerous illusions. The moment we stand still, we begi.. | evolution humanity humanity-and-society stagnation individual society transformation | Erich Fromm | |
| 8b502e6 | Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality. | Erich Fromm | ||
| fb7e52e | the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of the inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking. The word power has a twofold meaning. One is the possession of power over somebody, the ability to dominate him; the other meaning is the possession of power to do something, to be able, to be potent. The l.. | Erich Fromm | ||
| c259d16 | Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning. | Erich Fromm | ||
| b6da0c5 | Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self disappears to a large extent, and where the aim is to belong to the heard. If I am like everybody else, if I have no feeling or thoughts which make me different, if I conform in custom, dress, ideas, to the pattern of the group, I am saved: saved from the frightening experience of aloneness. | Erich Fromm |