“May new sufferings torment your soul.”
Inspired feeling
Inspired Quotes — page 199 of 313
“Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.”
“So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.”
“The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the serpent heaves its final gasps.”
“And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.”
“I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.”
“For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I've got that gift.”
“Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.”
“It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.”
“Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.”
“Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."”
“When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.”
“When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.”
“Someone has said that all the great jugglers are dead.”
“When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.”
“A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!”
“I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.”
“A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.”
“Let the beauty we love do what we do.”
“I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the world conceives Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.”