Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Benjamin Myers

Quote by Benjamin Myers

“The collapse of what once was had been comprised of dozens of gestures, scores of things left unsaid and hundreds of resentments spread over the thousand days that all stacked up to create millions of tiny moments of muffled misery.”

Quote by Benjamin Myers

Book:Male Tears
Create image

Work

Male Tears

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Benjamin Myers

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Benjamin Myers. more

You May Also Like

“Changing my narrative from one of complaint and dissatisfaction to a more positive one changed my mood, but it didn’t change all the other negatives that had tipped the balance of our marital life into dysfunction. Memories of good times were a reminder that life cannot be measured in purely black and white terms. The good and bad coexist in a tenuous equilibrium that is always in flux.”

MemoriesBalanceDivorceUnhappy MarriageToxic Marriage
Book:Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
Create image

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”

ActivismService
Author:Walt Whitman
Create image

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

PowerRightsActivismDissentAgitationRadicalismLiberties
Author:Frederick Douglass
Create image