"When does the loneliness of old age begin?"

-- Janusz Korczak

#Loneliness Quotes #Age Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream, to get in touch with yourself...To putter is to discover.”
“Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.”
“And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?”

Source : Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company
“I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.”
“The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
“Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.”
“There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.”

Source : Mary Daly (1993). “Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage”, Womens PressLtd

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