"My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect."

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Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros | Alex Ebert Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Alex Ebert

#Pain Quotes #Ego Quotes #Want Quotes

“I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.”
“I really and truly believe that music represents humanityâ€™s soul.”
“The purpose creates the machine.”
“The day I found out, the day I got my mammogram and the doctor told me I had breast cancer, it was mid-November.”
“Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt”
“Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.”
“There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.”
“All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future--a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life--is gone. [p. 149]”

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