We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
Carl BernsteinTags: life humanity culture idiocy
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
Eric IdleTags: humor wisdom life comedy
Be happy, but never satisfied.
Bruce LeeTags: life
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph EllisonTags: life humanity control defeat
Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing of his lifespot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes the case, these spritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked flames and lightnings shot up, and accursed fiends beconed him to leap down among them; when this hell in himself yawned beneath him, a wild cry would be heard through the ship; and with glaring eyes Ahab would burst from his state room, as though escaping from a bed that was on fire.
Herman MelvilleTags: life
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: life
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph CampbellTags: life change open-mind open-heart resilience
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
John LennonTags: life ignorance beatles blindness
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
John UpdikeThe past can not be cured.
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