"The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance."

-- Malcolm Muggeridge

#Sex Quotes #Light Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.”

Source : "Absolutism in central Europe" by Peter H. Wilson, (p. 54), 2000.
“God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.”
“Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.”
“The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature”
“The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.”
“There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.”
“What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.”
“The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.”

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