"She doesnâ€™t think sheâ€™s worthy to live. But she doesnâ€™t realize, she is life."

-- Derek Raymond

#Thinking Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Self Hatred Quotes

“The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.”
“For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?”
“Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.”
“Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.”

Source : Peggy Lipton, Coco Dalton (2007). “Breathing Out”, p.35, Macmillan
“Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained”

Source : Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers
“Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.”
“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.”
“And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.”

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