"All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom."

-- Cato the Younger

#Speech Quotes #Possessed Quotes

“Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.”
“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.”

Source : "The Hours". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“I wanted to talk about certain things in a way that I hadn't seen them talked about. There is vast literature about caring for people romantically, about caring for children, but there's not a lot about caring for older people, eldercare. I was searching for a book that would speak to me, that wouldn't be sociological, that would offer some insight, some solace.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.”
“But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.”

Source : Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.190, Red Lemonade
“For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.”
“It's hard enough doing something bold without jumping into your bad reviews.”
“My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.”

Source : "Exclusive: David Cronenberg Knows What Defamer Is And Still Lets Us Interview Him". Defamer Interview, gawker.com. September 02, 2008.

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