"My painting is not violent, it’s life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death." - Francis Bacon
"I often hear that Gintama is very kind to losers. The thought that 'a failure like me can still keep living when I read this manga.' But I didn’t intentionally draw losers. I’ve been told that it’s because I’m a loser too. Well, fine. But honestly, I think everyone’s a loser. The only difference is the skin we put on. Once you open the lid and look inside, everyone’s the same.'" - 空知英秋、「銀魂」の漫画家
"It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly - it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered." - Aldous Huxley, Islands
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." - Kurt Vonnegut
"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don’t believe that. Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times it to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else." - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"'The trouble with dreams isn’t that they are grand, or impractical, or out of reach. The trouble is when something good comes along and you can’t see it, you’re too busy looking out. The ship comes into harbour and you’re staring at the horizon. It’s dangerous, Jun-kun. You could miss everything that way.'" - shelvability [ x]
"'At first I wished I had a camera, but now I think it's better to remember, you know? I wouldn't want a picture.' He tilts his head. 'I think it would be different if I could draw like you can, though. It's not the same as a photo. A photo can ruin your memory if it's too realistic. But your drawing is always exactly how it looked to you.'" - cimorene [x]
"'Our uncertainties never leave us. We’ve got to live them out.' 'What if I daren’t?' Jun says, very quietly, the first time he admits to this unholy, insidious fear. 'Of course you dare. There’s always room for fear. Everything starts out as the unknown. It’s the maps and plans and instructions you’ve got for yourself that are so terrifying.'" - shelvability [ x]
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'What if I daren’t?' Jun says, very quietly, the first time he admits to this unholy, insidious fear.
'Of course you dare. There’s always room for fear. Everything starts out as the unknown. It’s the maps and plans and instructions you’ve got for yourself that are so terrifying.'" - shelvability [ x]
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