"Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared."

-- Robertson Davies

#Stupid Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..”

Source : Christopher Moore (2010). “Fool”, p.105, Hachette UK
“If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.”
“He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts were familiar to him, many times had he turned them over this way and that, first shuddering at the probability of annihilation, then welcoming it, almost rejoicing in it. Suddenly a peculiarly familiar agitation took possession of him... He mused awhile, sat down at the table, and wrote down the following lines in his sacred copy-book, without a single correction:”
“We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.”
“The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.”
“It didnâ€™t and doesnâ€™t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. Itâ€™s only a matter of how long you can live with it.”
“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.”

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