"The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred."

-- Samuel Beckett

#Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sight Quotes

“I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.”
“Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I've seen this over and over in America, too.”
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”

Source : Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay (1978). “The New Art of Color: The Writings of Robert and Sonia Delaunay”, Viking Adult
“When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.”
“A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better.”
“I focused on the passing houses filled with couples whoâ€™d somehow survived this teenage craziness of â€˜he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just canâ€™t win.â€™ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.”
“I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelingsâ€¦”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.101, Petrarca Press
“Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.”

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