"A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry."

-- D. H. Lawrence

#Depression Quotes #Men Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

Source : Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough (1991). “The journals of Sylvia Plath”
“I can be shy, but Iâ€™m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.”
“I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.”
“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
“This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years.”
“I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.”
“Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.”
“You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.”

You may also like: