“When you look out of a window, when you look at anything, you know what you're seeing? Yourself. A thing can only look beautiful or romantic or inspiring only if the beauty or romance or inspiration is inside you.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 131 of 313
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.”
“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
“Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.”
“These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.”
“The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.”
“Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been an agricultural country, and that even before the wars destroyed lands and irrigation canals, only 5 per cent of the land was cultivable.”
“What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?”
“I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.”
“What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.”
“In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.”
“the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.”
“Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.”
“Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.”
“The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination.”
“The worst time is always the present.”
“Better to suffer than to die.”
“If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.”
“The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.”
“You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.”