Apr 13, 2004 00:04
"I realized aloud in the midst of saying it that even when we die we probably don't find out the question as to why we were ever alive. Even the avowed atheist probably thinks that in death he'll get some answer. I mean God will be there, or there won't be anything at all."
"There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead."
"To be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn."
"Finally those you love are simply...those you love."
"We live in a world of accidents finally, in which only aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky--such brutal beauty is beyond dispute."
"None of us really changes over time; we only become more fully what we are."
"So we reach into the raging chaos and we pluck some small glittering thing, and we cling to it, and tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil."
"Sometimes hate and love serve exactly the same purpose."
"It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things."
and i have saved the best (my favorite quote ever) for last:
"A singer can shatter a glass with the proper high note...but the simplest way for anyone to break a glass is simply to drop it on the floor."
fun quotes