Philip O Ceallaigh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody saw was no longer me.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh

#Real #Gone #Saws
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh

#Depression #Self #Breathing
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh

#Passion #Two Sides #Silence
Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh

#Solitude #Loner #Likes
All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh

#Grief #Suffering #Sorrow
I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.
-- Philip O Ceallaigh

#Broken Heart #Taken #Impossible

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
Misery leads to crime. I saw so many boys whipped it ruined my mind.
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Philip O Ceallaigh famous quotes

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