"I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation."

-- Todd Solondz

#Pain Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.”
“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.”

Source : Cassius Jackson Keyser (1922). “Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen”
“Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.”
“I think all great wrestlers appreciate a good BATTLE”
“I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.”
“We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for deeper meanings.”
“There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.”
“We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.”

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