“Laughter is the sound of the shattering of the ego.”
Source: Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception
“By imagining ourselves as rational beings, we welcome vulnerable to malformed affections and habits. When we deny the reality of our social modes of reasoning, we become caught up in mindless swarms: trying to become a community of rational thinkers, we become a swarm of atomized, emoters.”
Source: Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News
“Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless valley, where we shall feel ourselves anew, bedded on magic in the month of June. There was a place where all the sun went glistening in your hair, and from the hill we could have put a finger on a star. Where is the day that melted into one rich noise? Where the music of your flesh, the rhyme of your teeth, the dainty languor of your legs, your small firm arms, your slender fingers, to be bitten like an apple, and the little cherry-teats of your white breasts? And where are all the tiny wires of finespun maidenhair? Quick are the mouths of earth, and quick the teeth that fed upon this loveliness. You who were made for music, will hear music no more: in your dark house the winds are silent. Ghost, ghost, come back from that marriage that we did not foresee, return not into life, but into magic, where we have never died, into the enchanted wood, where we still life, strewn on the grass. Come up into the hills, O my young love: return. O lost, and by the wind grieved ghost, come back again.”
Source: Look Homeward, Angel
“You will do yourself a favor by seeking objective truths over emotional comfort.”
Source: Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
“She understood how he felt. She knew what it felt like to want something, to make sure that you don’t mess it up, to feel vulnerable around someone, to just be in another person’s company while overanalyzing yourself. It was emotionally exhausting.”
Source: All the Little Things
“Emotions guide us to a revelation of a truth, but they cannot do so unless and until we have allowed them to do their primary work, which is to be felt.”
Source: Broken Porcelain
“The reality is that we are bodies born from other bodies, bodies feeding other bodies, bodies having sex with other bodies, bodies seeking a shoulder to lean or cry on, bodies traveling long distances to be close to other bodies, and on.”
Source: Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
“She cannot know him. Not truly... And though she knows that's the case for everyone, for no one can exist within another's mind or skin, it's how far apart they are in their history, their beliefs, that ultimately matters. After all, it's the distance of separation that creates the impact.”
Source: Take What You Can Carry
“You can say it a thousand times but it can still remain unsaid.”
“Truth, when forged in the fires of emotions, can swell and loom over Fact likes a veil of impenetrable mithril, allowing the unreal to seem more plausible, more desirable, and over time, shift all into a new shared and accepted, albeit fictitious, paradigm.”
Source: The Joyful Guide To Lachrymology