"From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue."

-- Salvatore Quasimodo

#Dark Quotes #Night Quotes #Yield Quotes

“Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.”

Source : Philip Slater (1974). “Earth-walk”
“I spread the message of oneness in life and living. This is the way to peace on earth. This is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled.”
“Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.”
“Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread it and see if there is anything I want to change or any re-coloring I want to do. That's when I'm faced with the actual work. When I'm working, I'm too close to it. I'm sort of inside, and I can't see it at all. So when I have that experience of rereading it years later, it's jarring.”
“I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.”
“Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.”
“Success is not determined by the amount of accomplishments, but by the road traveled & how you handled the recovery of each failed attempt.”
“To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.”

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