"A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind."

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Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

Ben Gibbard

#Disappointment Quotes #Moving Quotes #People Quotes

“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”
“The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.”
“I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.”
“Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.”

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“People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!”
“We learn by teaching.”

Source : James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”
“The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.”

Source : Jean Lorrain (1994). “Monsieur de Phocas”, Hippocrene Books

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