“Unbeknownst to us, one day our paths will cross for the final time—never to cross again.”
“They lose the touch of keeping in touch. That’s and art in itself.”
Source: They: A Sequence of Unease
“It's unfair, Malkiel thought. It's unfair for Israel to separate us while it should bring us closer. Help us, Father, as you have helped so many others.”
Source: The Forgotten
“In a world where nothing matters, the most atrocious events are no longer horrifying; the most piteous victims no longer stir our compassion; the most frightening possibilities, like nuclear war and ecological destruction, no longer frighten us. Sometimes we explain it away as "compassion fatigue", but really it is a disconnection from reality. None of it seems real. We sit back, benumbed, watching the world slide slowly toward a precipice as if it were an on-screen enactment. Similarly, we watch the years of our own lives march on, indifferent to the preciousness of each passing moment. Only once in a while an alarm goes off, we panic for a moment with a thought like, "This is real! This is my life! What am I here for?" And then our environment tempts us back into stupor.”
Source: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Eisenstein, Charles
“When we pay professionals to grow our food, prepare our food, create our entertainment, make our clothes, build our houses, clean our houses, treat our illnesses, and educate our children, what's left? What's left on which to base community? Real communities are interdependent.”
Source: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Eisenstein, Charles
“When we pay professionals to grow our food, prepare our food, create our entertainment, make our clothes, build our houses, clean our houses, treat our illnesses, and educate our children, what's left? What's left on which to base community? Real communities are interdependent...It is strangers whom we pay to perform [these] functions. It doesn't really matter who grows your food - if they have a problem, you can always pay someone else to do it. This phrase encapsulates much about our modern society...we can always pay someone else to do it. As an individual, it is hard not to feel dispensable, a cog in the machine. We feel dispensable because, in terms of survival, in terms of all the economic functions of life, we are dispensable.”
Source: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Eisenstein, Charles
“And then he might say, "A man can hold two hearts in the same hand and not let them touch."
And if you asked him what that meant, he would just tell you he needed to get back to work.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I'm a goner
And maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin”
Source: If I Die Young: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
“At school I don't tell anyone about church.
At church I don't tell anyone about home.
The neighborhood kids don't know anything about anything else.
The trick is to keep your stories to yourself, so they can't use them against you.”
Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Those who love and are separated may live in pain, but it is not despair: they know that love exists.”
Source: The fall