How am I ever to apologize to myself sufficiently?”
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries
Tag: Quoted
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Any Human Anywhere
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”
— Doris Lessing (via WeCroak)
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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.”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bring a Sledgehammer
People put up a lot of walls. Bring a sledgehammer to your life.”
— Westworld, S3E2: “The Winter Line“, HBO
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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
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Tortoise
Oh, you do me wrong. Would I do anything wicked? I’m a peaceful soul, bothering nobody and leading a gentle, herbivorous life. And my thoughts merely drift among the oddities and quarks of how things are (as I see them). I, humble observer of phenomena, plod along and puff my silly words into the air rather unspectacularly, I am afraid.”
— Tortoise, Godel Escher Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
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Frida Kahlo on What We Can Endure
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
— Frida Kahlo
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The Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Lisa Marie Blair 