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“It often happens that the real tragedies of life happen in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes however a tragedy of artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthrall us”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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"The most tragic thing in the world and in life, readers and brothers of mine, is love. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion; love is consolation in desolation; it is the sole medicine against death, for it is death’s brother… Love seeks with fury, through the medium of the beloved, something beyond, and since it finds it not, it despairs."

— Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life

quoth the madman

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“A person who eats meat
wants to get his teeth into something
A person who does not eat meat
wants to get his teeth into something else    
If these thoughts interest you for even a moment
you are lost.”

— Leonard Cohen, “A Person Who Eats Meat”

quoth the madman

 

“The field cannot be well seen from within the field.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

ponder

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

ponder

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of the weakness of inertia and dies by chance"

— From Sartre’s, “Nausea”

ponder

“The truth stands, immutable. Beautiful and horrible, isn’t it?”

pondering:

“Silence isn’t always deep; sometimes it’s just empty peace, the sound of absence.”

— Saaninonino

ponderous

 

“Do not
awaken galaxies
inside of someone
if you are not even
fond of stars.”

— Lucy Quin

ponder

“Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good.”

— Ludwig Bemelmans

ponder

“Me sentía capaz de todo y sobretodo me sentía capaz de huir muy lejos.”

( “I felt capable of everything, most importantly I felt capable of running very far away.” )

Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

ponder

 

“This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”

— Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

literacki

“We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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“Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo’s David is just a million hits with a hammer. We’re all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

quoth the madman

“The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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“Why couldn’t people’s insides match their outsides? The world would be such a wonderful place if the nicer someone was, the more beautiful they became.”

— Jay Bell, Something Like Summer

ponder

“Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you. Know your worth even if they don’t.”

— Thema Davis 

ponder

“Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

— Mandy Hale 

truthiness

 

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”

— Rumi

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“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

ponder

“Letting go is such a difficult thing to understand. You can’t try to let go. Trying to let go is like trying not to think about something. You’re just going to think about it even more. I think letting go is less of an ending of one thing and more of an acceptance of everything. It’s okay that this is the way it is right now. There’s no other way it’s supposed to be.”

— Emery Allen

quoth the madman

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

— Henry Ford

pondering

 

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

quoth the madman

“Re-create yourselves: and let this be your best creation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

ponderous

“What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.”

— Chester Bennington 

ponderous

“Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are disease-ridden, some deceitful; but others are a delight to behold, and many travel to foreign lands; some cry, some teach, others are lots of fun, they are excellent companions and all have individuality - Books are friends. What person has too many friends?”

— Gladys Hunt

quoth the madman

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

— Plato 

ponder

“Everything I cannot have
And everything I have ever wanted
What a beautiful contradiction you are”

— Julia M. Wingard 

ponderous

“If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too, but that doesn’t mean you got to stop living.”

— Archie’s Final Project, Dir. David Lee Miller

ponder

“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.”

— Thomas Cardinal Wolsey 

literacki

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

pondering

 

“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”

— Lemony Snicket

quoth the madman

 

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”

— Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching

ponderous

 

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

— William Ellery Channing

pondering

 

“Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you got, and fix it along the way…”

— Paul Arden

ponder

 

“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.”

— Billie Holiday 

ponder

 

“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things