"He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me."

-- Daphne du Maurier

#Sadness Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Fate Quotes

“I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org
“Painting from life was incredibly important for me because it allowed me to train my eyes to see everything that is there. But I realized early on that painting from life wasn't something that I was all that invested in. I was always more interested in the painting than I was the people. For me, removing that as a compulsion offered me a lot more freedom to actually paint and think about color, form, movement, and light.”
“How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.”
“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.”
“O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.”

Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.60, University of Georgia Press
“Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.”
“There's something about playing every night, it becomes easy and it becomes fun. I love being up there and playing for different crowds every night.”

Source : "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”

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