"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."

-- Glenn Gould

#Isolation Quotes #Indispensable Quotes #Humans Quotes

“Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.”

Source : Charles Wesley, Frederic M. BIRD (1867). “Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]”, p.59
“Dear God, teach me to be careless.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2002). “Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories”, p.55, Simon and Schuster
“To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.”
“The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.”

Source : "Hellsing". Manga series by Kouta Hirano, 1997 - September 30, 2008.
“I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.”
“Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.”
“Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.”
“No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.”

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