"There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful."

-- Gaston Leroux

#Innocence Quotes #Hateful Quotes

“I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.”
“Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.”
“In me the tiger sniffs the rose.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber
“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”
“In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.”
“My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.”

Source : Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
“The best songs I write in 20 minutes.”

Source : "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.
“I worked at a bunch of salons, and at one, a girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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