"This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending."

-- Jerry Stahl

#Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
“Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.”
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
“I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.”
“You can’t plead tolerance for gays by saying that they’re just like everyone else. Tolerance is something we should extend to people who are not like everyone else.”
“Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain”
“The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.”
“Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.”

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