"The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her."

-- Francis Thompson

#Family Quotes #Mother Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“I don't see Jian [Ghomeshi] as an enemy. What [Marie Henein] was saying about how I hate him - I'm like, that's not accurate.”
“As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.”

Source : Yves Klein (2000). “Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial”, Delano Greenridge Editions
“But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?”
“All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now in daisy, now in a wind-waft, a cloud, a sunset; a power that holds constant and sweetest relation with the dark and silent world within us. The same God who is in us, and upon whose tree we are the buds, if not yet the flowers, also is all about us- inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us...”

Source : George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw
“The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.”

Source : Norman Rockwell, Thomas Rockwell (1979). “Norman Rockwell, My Adventures as an Illustrator: An Autobiography”, Curtis Publishing Company, (IN)
“It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence that people are not as smart as dogs think they are.And he wants to see it time and again.In the fog of ambiguities and mysteries,he desperately searches for truths because truth usually shows humanity in a poor light”
“While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.”

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