“Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.”
Inspired feeling
Inspired Quotes — page 187 of 313
“Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.”
“For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”
“He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.”
“Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success”
“These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.”
“Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.”
“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”
“Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.”
“I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.”
“In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.”
“Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.”
“There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.”
“Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.”
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
“Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you.”
“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
“I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.”
“Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.”
“For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.”