"Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land."

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Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press

Elaine Scarry

#Real Quotes #Land Quotes #Bird Quotes

“If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.”

Source : "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 71), 2006.
“I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.”
“The idea of a hell that involves some kind of eternal punishment at the hands of a just and holy God is so profoundly difficult for us to handle emotionally, that the only person who would have enough authority to convince us of the reality of such a place would be Jesus Himself.”
“We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record being influential to their lives in one way or another. It's always nice to hear that stuff.”
“Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.”
“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
“Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.”

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