"He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Long Quotes #Littles Quotes #Sat Quotes

“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”
“Nobody has ever been able to define Jazz satisfactorily. This is probably because anyone who was capable of doing so never really wanted to, knowing how much you would have to leave out of the definition.”
“The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.”
“Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.”

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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say youâ€™re running and you think, â€˜Man, this hurts, I canâ€™t take it anymore. The â€˜hurtâ€™ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
“Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.”
“With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.”
“Iâ€™m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.”

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