„I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.“

— John Fowles, kniha The Collector

Zdroj: The Collector

Poslední aktualizace 3. června 2021.

John Fowles

britský spisovatel 1926 - 2005

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„I think the control I had over my work was less than adequate. There was nothing wrong with the good bits in my poems, it’s just that they were packed around with lots and lots of bad bits, and I think that the only way I’ve improved in the last several decades [... ] is that I’ve learned to leave out the bad bits. I’m not sure you do improve beyond that.“

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— Clive James Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist 1939 - 2019

From a conversation with Peter Porter broadcast on ABC Radio, Australia in the program 'Book Talk' on Saturday 15 October 2005
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„To accomplish great things we must live as though we had never to die.“

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— Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues French writer, a moralist 1715 - 1747

Pour exécuter de grandes choses, il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir.
Quoted in Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays (2009), by Keith Stern, p. 466.
Varianta: In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
Zdroj: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 172.

„We often just accept the things that we like and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life. I think that would be fantastic.“

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— Hank Green American vlogger 1980

A Few Of My Favorite Things http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBWH4eMiklU
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„I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand. If we are born to die and we all die to live, then whats the point of living life if it just contradicts?“

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— Ronnie Radke American singer 1983

In the song "The Drug in Me Is You"

„Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.“

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— Haruki Murakami, kniha South of the Border, West of the Sun

Zdroj: South of the Border, West of the Sun

„The so-called elite in Hong Kong has what we call 'Central District values", and I think Hong Kong would do a lot better if everyone could just travel out a bit and see how, not just the other half, but probably the other 75%, lives.“

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— Leung Chun-ying Hong Kong politician 1954

2012

„Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.“

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— John Steinbeck American writer 1902 - 1968

Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)

„We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.“

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— Chuck Palahniuk, kniha Zalknutí

Zdroj: Choke

„I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.“

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— L. Frank Baum Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856 - 1919

Aunt Jane’s Nieces and Uncle John (1911)
Novels published under the pseudonym Edith van Dyne
Kontext: I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and — and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another — a sequel — feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

„If we live a life full of regret, full of things we haven't done, if we've lived an unfulfilled life, when death comes along, it's a lot worse. I think it's true for all of us.“

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— Irvin D. Yalom American psychotherapist and writer 1931

How to Die, The Atlantic, October 2017 Issue https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-to-die/537906/

„The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.“

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— H.P. Lovecraft, kniha The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Zdroj: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

„I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.“

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— John Fowles, kniha The Collector

Zdroj: The Collector

„I think it's good that we put in lots of new things back then.“

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— Takashi Tezuka video game designer 1960

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„So mercy, mercy, mercy me

Praying for the death of a man I'll never meet

Though everyone will know the truth they'll still just make believe

Mercy mercy me

That's all they came for, that's all they took

That's all we had to offer, only dirty looks

And when they realized we'd given all we could, that's when they finally understood

Mercy mercy mercy me

Haunted by the memories of things we'll never see

Guilty for the statements that we'll never get to speak

Mercy mercy me

"We can't quite blame it on our mothers

Claim everything they did was always wrong"

And there ain't no turning back when our train is off its track

And there's nothing we can do but watch it crash

And there ain't no right and wrong when we know it won't be long

And there's nothing we can do but watch it crash“

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— Tomas Kalnoky American musician 1980

"Watch It Crash" from "Somewhere in the Between" (2007) http://risc.perix.co.uk/lyrics/sm/sitb/05/

„Stop giving a s— what other people think of you. We make decisions too often based on that…When we start to live for ourselves, and be a little bit more selfish, I think we’ll lead more fulfilling lives. So I think what we need to do, is stare at ourselves in the mirror a little bit longer, and really own who we are and not try to be what we think others want us to be.“

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— Lena Waithe American actress, producer, and screenwriter 1984

On how women should embrace their true selves in “Lena Waithe's Message to Women: 'Stop Giving a S--- What Other People Think'” https://variety.com/video/lena-waithe-message-to-women-variety-cover-shoot/ in Variety Magazine