"I have a new name for pain. What's that? The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then."

-- Christopher Paolini

#Strong Quotes #Pain Quotes #Animal Quotes

“Worrying is stupid. it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.”
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
“I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.”

Source : "Alt-comics great Gilbert Hernandez wanders back into childhood". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 17, 2013.
“There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.”

Source : Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.97, Bread and Circuses Publishing
“Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.”
“Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 513, 2005.
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.”

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