"Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy."

-- Anne Carson

#Pain Quotes #Dark Quotes #Sweat Quotes

“Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.”
“As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.”

Source : "Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".
“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.”
“This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.”
“The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.”
“How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?”

Source : Philip Taaffe, Stan Brakhage (1998). “Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage”, Blumarts
“How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?”

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