"To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Ineffable Quotes #Company Quotes

“A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.”

Source : "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Book by Bradley Denton, 1991.
“Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm worried about those who disappeared. I don't know anything about them now. They just disappeared like that after the war started, while I was living in the United States.”
“Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.”
“No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.”
“Sustainability is the key to our survival on this planet and will also determine success on all levels.”
“And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heartâ€”knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we canâ€™t have again what once seemed ours for everâ€”the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. Theyâ€™ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.”
“Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.”
“After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.”

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