"To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid."

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Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.49, Prestwick House Inc

Edgar Lee Masters

#Sea Quotes #Desire Quotes #May Quotes

“I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.”
“An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.”

Source : Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young (1968). “A future for English music, and other lectures”
“I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.”
“These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.”
“Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.”
“Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.”
“I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.”

Source : "An incomplete commentary on The John W. Campbell Memorial Awards". Usenet article, groups.google.com. 2002.
“The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2016). “Partly: New and Selected Poems, 2001–2015”, p.144, Wesleyan University Press

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