“Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 204 of 313
“To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.”
“A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.”
“The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.”
“The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.”
“...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.”
“What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.”
“Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.”
“We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!”
“The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.”
“What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.”
“It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.”
“Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.”
“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.”
“If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'”
“I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.”
“I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.”
“A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.”
“He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.”
“That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and sober--this demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.”