"You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in."

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Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “Dreams of Sleep”, p.122, Penguin

Josephine Humphreys

#Suicide Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.”

Source : "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.
“Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.”
“The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.”
“Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other.”
“When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had.”
“This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like GÃ¼nter Brus, and then you have Salvador DalÃ of course, then much later, Marina AbramoviÄ‡ and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It's an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about MÃ©ret's Oppenheim piece.”
“Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light away from fixing the child and managing the child, obsession with all things that have to do with the child and the child centric approach and really focusing on the evolution of the parent. It about fully understanding that unless the parent has raised themselves to a certain level of emotional integration and maturity, they will really not be able to do true service to the child's spirit.”

Source : Source: www.chicagonow.com
“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. This is success!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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