"The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable."

-- Thomas Bernhard

#Art Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Unbearable Quotes

“Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there."”
“I'm trying to see if I can speak about our society today, but I cannot speak about the theme, because it's a bit difficult. I'm just starting to work on that. Because we live in a kind of world which has drastically changed in the last years. We speak about globalization, and how it's become the reason for everything. It has a kind of deep meaning. To be everywhere and to be nowhere at the same time. You think to globalize, you think, the Earth, it's your country. No, it's not your country. It's not easy to catch it in a cinema. It's too huge.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice. 'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?' 'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit...”
“I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.”
“The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.”

Source : Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword
“Wishes are thoughts vibrant with life and eager for action.”
“To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers
“For me, fishing and journalism touched the same places in my head. In comparison with that of poets, the fly fishers' and the journalists' experiences are probably pale flavors, but they carry nonetheless a hint of ambrosia.”

Source : Howell Raines (2006). “The One that Got Away: A Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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