“Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 137 of 313
“I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.”
“I always used to sing in the shower, but I never really got into the music until a friend of mine helped me a lot with recording.”
“Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.”
“I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.”
“Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.”
“I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.”
“I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.”
“It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.”
“The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.”
“Growth is often a painful process.”
“Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.”
“I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.”
“Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”
“The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.”
“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”
“Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so.”
“O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.”
“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”
“God forgive you, but I never can.”