"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."

-- Michel Houellebecq

#Boredom Quotes #Want Quotes #Absence Quotes

“Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.”
“One day he (Einstein) said that the only mechanical force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy is will. That Alberto bloke was not stupid. With will you can achieve things.”

Source : "Manchester United's José Mourinho: no longer the bright young iconoclast" by Jonathan Wilson, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2016.
“When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.”
“A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.”

Source : Stanislaw Lem (1985). “The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.”

Source : Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.55, Multnomah
“There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.”

Source : FaceBook post by Martin Scorsese from Dec 15, 2013
“I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.”

Source : Edward Dmytryk (1978). “It's a hell of a life, but not a bad living”, Crown

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