“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 87 of 313
“Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.”
“The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.”
“Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.”
“I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.”
“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
“If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.”
“Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”
“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”
“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”
“The sense of death is most in apprehension.”
“You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.”
“Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.”
“Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.”
“Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.”
“Inspiration follows aspiration.”
“Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything.”
“The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.”
“Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.”