"Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components â€“ that is doubtless a way to curb mourning."

-- Julia Kristeva

#Mourning Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Way Quotes

“Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?”
“People tend to forget that we tie our life history to music like the soundtrack to your life in many more ways than just having a hit record on the radio.”
“The only way of making money is for effort. The only time I've ever lost money is when I've purposely said, "I'm doing this to make money." And I've actually on three occasions lost significant sums. I have made wealth when I've actually made a contribution to something, when I've done something I thought I could do better than somebody else or have done something better than somebody else does it.”

Source : Interview with Steve Sailah, www.abc.net.au. June 2, 2000.
“I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.”
“Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.”
“The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 378), 1895.
“No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.”
“How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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