Quotes
Authors
Cheryl Strayed

"If, as a culture, we donâ€™t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they donâ€™t â€” if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live â€” well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help."

-- Cheryl Strayed

#Letting Go Quotes #Morning Quotes #Pain Quotes

“I think that horror films have a very direct relationship to the time in which they're made. The films that really strike a film with the public are very often reflecting something that everyone, consciously or unconsciously feeling - atomic age, post 9-11, post Iraq war; it's hard to predict what people are going to be afraid of.”

Source : "Eli Roth answers your questions" by Adam Boult, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2013.
“Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.”
“The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.”
“The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.”
“[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward. It strips us of the right to make our own determination, as all humans always have, about what is and what is not a right human action.”
“I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.”
“Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite.”

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