"All my humor is based upon destruction and despair."

-- Lenny Bruce

#Despair Quotes #Destruction Quotes

“Music is my biggest passion aside from anything else.”
“One [idea] was that the Universe started its life a finite time ago in a single huge explosion, and that the present expansion is a relic of the violence of this explosion. This big bang idea seemed to me to be unsatisfactory even before detailed examination showed that it leads to serious difficulties.”

Source : Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”
“The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.”
“Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.”
“I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.”
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.”
“I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated at audiences' willingness to handle complexity. In some sense, I feel like my belief in what people are capable of is being validated.”

Source : "he Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.”

Source : W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.46, Vintage Canada

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