“Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.”
Inspired feeling
Inspired Quotes — page 124 of 313
“If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.”
“Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.”
“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”
“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
“This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.”
“The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form, the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”
“One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.”
“I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.”
“What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.”
“It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.”
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
“Beware of what you want-for you will get it.”
“Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.”
“Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.”
“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.”
“Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.”
“The helpless can't help the helpless.”
“Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.”
“Social sorrow loses half its pain.”