"Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation."

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Source : Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1248, Delphi Classics

Thomas de Quincey

#Struggle Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Vision Quotes

“It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.”
“Everything must change, everything must move forward.”

Source : Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.
“I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.”
“The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 5, Nationalism, p. 138., 1989.
“I've always known that I wanted to be an actor. My family kind of was a theatrically inclined family. My father came to New York when he was a young man to be an actor and he, over a course, was in a couple Broadway musicals. I grew up in family where theater was always part of the vocabulary. By the time I was a teenager I was just totally obsessed, and it was the only thing I could imagine myself doing.”
“My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.”
“The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.”
“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

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