Lisa Marie Blair

Tag: Quote

  • One Heart

    If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain”

    — Emily Dickinson (via WeCroak)

  • I Know You

    I know you by your habits; the grooves you have cut in the world; the familiar boredoms I would miss beyond all else.”

    — Magnificent Ruin

  • Devolving//Evolving

    “Things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness”

    — Leonard Koren (via WeCroak)

  • Then Whence Evil?

    Epicurus’s old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?”

    — David Hume

  • A Guide for People

    A Guide for People

    “I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.”

    — Little Richard, Dead at 87

  • The Radicals

    The radicals taking over feminism, many of whom were active in the civil-rights and antiwar movements, wanted to overthrow patriarchy, which would require transforming almost every aspect of society: child rearing, entertainment, housework, academics, romance, business, art, politics, sex.”

    — Ariel Levy, Lift And Separate

  • They Shift

    What can you know about a person? They shift
    in the light. You can’t light up all sides at once. Add
    a second light and you get a second darkness”

    — Richard Siken, “Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light”, War of the Foxes

  • Nothing New Under the Sun

    “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

    — Ecclesiastes 1:9, New International Version

  • John Steinbeck

    I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”

    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • Walt Whitman

    Let others dispose of questions, I dispose of nothing, I arouse
    unanswerable questions,
    Who are they I see and touch, and what about them?
    What about these likes of myself that draw me so close by tender
    directions and indirections?”

    — Walt Whitman, “Myself and Me”, On the Beach at Night Alone

  • Joan Didion

    The have‐nots, it turned out, aspired mainly to having.”

    — Joan Didion, The Women’s Movement

  • Bring a Sledgehammer

    People put up a lot of walls. Bring a sledgehammer to your life.”

    — Westworld, S3E2: “The Winter Line“, HBO

  • Walt Whitman

    I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but
    listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
    I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I
    cannot expound myself,
    I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
    I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.”

    — Walt Whitman, “Myself and Me”, On the Beach at Night Alone

  • Joan Didion

    To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone ‘oppressed’ to break them.”

    — Joan Didion, The Women’s Movement