Dan Morgenstern famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

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