"How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more"

-- Milan Kundera

#Suffering Quotes #Glimpse Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes

“You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.”
“If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.”
“The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.”

Source : "Tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.
“I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.”
“I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.”
“In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.”

Source : George Antheil (1945). “Bad boy of music”
“If there is one thing fundamental to the life of the spirit it is the absence of force.”

Source : Harold J. Laski (2014). “A Grammar of Politics (Works of Harold J. Laski)”, p.33, Routledge
“The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.”

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