“… but I do know that nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.”
P. Straub, Ghost Story
To the other side
Schlagwort: quote
Hearts full of meanness
Of The Empire
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
© 2008 by Mary Oliver
From her 2008 collection, Red Bird, p. 46
Published by Beacon Press 2008
Who is that on the other side of you
“Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
— But who is that on the other side of you?”
T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land)
Reptiles of the Mind
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
Darkness touched her
“That night, after she’d screamed into her crumpled blanket for a long time and finally punched a hole through the darkness into that other place where the answers came from, the darkness began to speak to her, its voice more distinct than she had ever heard it before. The darkness touched her. Its touch was hard and warm, but somehow comforting, as if strong, invisible hands caressed her.”
[Excerpt: Schweitzer, Darrell: Sometimes you have to shout about it]
Guardians of our own fears
“Maybe tradition and ghosts are just remnants of a past you refuse to leave behind. We do not learn from the past, we just keep these remnants. And we put our faith in them. And with faith we create those spirits and spells, and become zealous guardians of our own fears.”
[Désirée Bressend, Call of the Suicide Forest, Heft 5]
Courage
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’ ”
Mary Anne Radmacher
People are tired
„It’s more that people want to be alone. It’s more that there’s so little to say. It’s more that people are so tired.“
[E. Barnes, The City where we once lived]
Political Correctness
“Merry Christmas,” Todd said, and they clinked glasses.
“So you’re a ‘merry Christmas’ and not a ‘happy holidays’ kind of guy, huh?”
“I’m sorry, did I offend you?”
“Not at all. It’s refreshing. I’m so sick of political correctness. I’m suffocated by it. We’re so goddamn politically correct that we lose our individualism, our definition as human beings.”
[R. Malfi – Snow]
In diesem Sinne: Frohe Weihnachten euch da draußen!
Vampires…
“Vampires pioneered the self-care movement; they’ve been staying inside, avoiding people, and sleeping all day for centuries. And what has it gotten them? Perfect skin and immortality.”
Quote by “The Captain”, @sgrstk at Instagram