"What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life."

-- Wolfgang Tillmans

#Tragedy Quotes #Awareness Quotes #Corners Quotes

“Youâ€™re shaking â€¦ so am I. Itâ€™s because of Jerusalem, isnâ€™t it? One doesnâ€™t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. Thatâ€™s one of its mysteries.”
“I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.”
“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.”
“Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human”
“There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.”
“Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it”
“We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.191, Sheba Blake Publishing
“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”

Source : Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.22, University of Michigan Press

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