"Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Delay Quotes #Diversion Quotes

“They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.”
“People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.”
“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.”
“On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns.”
“The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.”
“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
“There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...”

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