"The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it."

-- Gail Godwin

#Longing Quotes #Intense Quotes

“I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like "every ultimate fact soon becomes the next in a series." The self feels more real when you are destroying things you've made than when you are paying them homage. That's the good news about being self-destructive. The bad news, I feel I don't need to deliver.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.424
“And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.”
“I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand
“The heart of most spiritual practices is simply this: Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live.”

Source : Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.233, Bantam
“Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic.”
“For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula, plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the Peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples.”
“I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jonathan Davis from Mar 21, 2017

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