Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[lisab]

E-man! Nice to see you again!

--lisab

 

[OmCheeto]

Explosions are fun.

He ended the paper with some research he had performed where he was able to take a 3.5hp engine, modify it somehow, and generate ~45 hp, at which point it blew up.

(ref)

 

[1MileCrash]

"I saw that all the things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them"

Spinoza

 

[jobyts]

"The problem with television is that people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.” - The New York Times, 1939.

 

[OmCheeto]

The porcupine is a peaceful animal, yet, God still thought it necessary to give him quills...

Found in a signature by someone by the name of AKmud, whilst looking for a squaw candy recipe.

 

[AlephZero]

It can be difficult to realize that we are constantly accelerating toward the center of the Earth when we are standing still.

Maybe the person who just posted that in another thread on PF should remain anonymous.

 

[OmCheeto]

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

I shall not share his quip about California, as it was just too funny.

 

[Lisa!]

“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.” – Voltaire

 

[Enigman]

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[lisab]

A long but very nice quote, E-man .

 

[Enigman]

http://medias.gifboom.com/medias/t_db69ae73062f4a0888aa93785a8659cf.jpg

 

[epenguin]

From another member of the acting profession just deceased:

“You see me now when I am old and ugly, in fact you should have seen me earlier — when I was young and ugly!”

Zohra Sehgal

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4173333.ece

 

[Darryl]

Wang Cares...

 

[Enigman]

One for a giggle...

One for the feels...

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[Astronuc]

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - Gandhi

http://www.gandhianpeace.com/quotes.html

 

[nuuskur]

"All cruelty springs from weakness" by Seneca.

 

[Charmar]

The wolf will always be labeled as bad if little red riding hoods account is the only one entertained.

 

[1MileCrash]

"All cruelty springs from weakness" by Seneca.

I think I posted this one a few pages ago, it's a great quote. :)
Since I'm here, I'll share another one by Seneca.

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

 

[OmCheeto]

You can use logic to attack your opponent, but if you get people laughing at them, you win.​

--- Steve Marmel*

[edit]*A gauzy, probably incorrect recollection of what my Journalism advisor at the University of Wisconsin once told me

 

[Psinter]

Always stay positive and never tell yourself that this is the last time.

 

[flinkpopper]

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
-Kurt Cobain

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
-Dr. Seuss

 

[Evo]

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel".

Maya Angelou

 

[Enigman]

F__k literature.
-Ernest Hemingway to Ezra Pound.
Selected Letters 1917–1961

 

[epenguin]

F__k literature.
-Ernest Hemingway to Ezra Pound.
Selected Letters 1917–1961

Probably the unwittyest of the dictae of this thread and wasn't he a bit of a poseur and self-image fabricator himself?

 

[Enigman]

Probably the unwittyest of the dictae of this thread and wasn't he a bit of a poseur and self-image fabricator himself?

Context:

Bill [Bird] is getting out my book [In Our Time*], it was promised by bindery 3 weeks ago--different dates have been set since. After awaiting various set dates by the binder I have lost the fine thrill enjoyed by Benj. Franklin when entering Philadelphia with a roll under each arm. F__k Literature.

I am writing some damn good stories. [...]

*First collection of short stories he published.

He's slowly losing his momentum and is disillusioned with the modern publishing industry. The exclamation is an angry criticism of the same in favour of the simplistic process in the previous century that was enjoyed by Ben Franklin. Ezra Pound was a mentor of sorts to Hemingway.
The quote on the other hand is fun to throw at English majors who don't know the context.

Also, you could use this : http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

_{Though, I am one to talk this post itself lights up like a rainbow}

 

[epenguin]

Aha, so the context is not uninfluential in constituting a considerable makes a difference.
Sylistically that app can help write like Orwell, Ian Fleming, Hemingway.
I think I and most of us can, at least write dry compressed scientific prose when needed.
I read a critique recently that said Orwell's stripped-down minimalism was itself very artificial, an affectation, like inverted snobbery, which rather spoilt him for me. And whatever was supposed to be most admirable I have to say that without being told to, the stylist I most enjoyed reading is Nabokov.

 

[Lisa!]

"The Secretary General of the UN has the easiest job in the world, he just needs to deplore."

 

[OmCheeto]

If you explain something
in ways that are not threatening
and lace that explanation
with enough illustration,
example
and humor,
people
at some point
can relax
and take it in.​

--- Robert Reich

 

[Psinter]

If you explain something
in ways that are not threatening
and lace that explanation
with enough illustration,
example
and humor,
people
at some point
can relax
and take it in.​

--- Robert Reich

Great! But on the other side of the coin:

People always manage to fall into panic when a terrible outcome is put into logical words and explained to them.

I lived that with my own skin and I did fall into panic like an idiot. I was totally fooled.

 

[Rubidium_71]

"I don't want to believe, I want to know." - Carl Sagan

"Ouch! I've been shot!" - JFK ;)

 

[Psinter]

Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.

Even if it's fiction I can relate. After being thrown into an abyss of despair I desperately struggled to get out of it. Accepting "help" (note the quotes) from people who were clearly the very enemies who threw me into the abyss, but I was in so much despair that I was blind to it.