"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult."

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Source : Harlan Ellison (2014). “Paingod: And Other Delusions”, p.36, Open Road Media

Harlan Ellison

#Pain Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“Many of the finest and most interesting emotions perish forever, because too complex and fugitive for expression. Of all things relating to man, his feelings are perhaps the most evanescent, the greater part dying in the moment of their birth. But while emotions perish, thought blended in diction is immortal.”
“Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.”
“We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives”
“Man is an ape with possibilities.”
“The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.”

Source : Isaac Barrow, John Tillotson, Abraham Hill (1700). “The works of the learned Isaac Barrow ...”
“I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.”

Source : Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke (2001). “Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year”, p.363, Villard
“Politics is the art of making civilization work.”

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