“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.” WorldHumansFactsDesireHuman BeingsForeverAchieveEmotionalDespairIntellectualPerfectionSpeciesStriveDenialImperfectionDoomedSaddestArdent Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel
“When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.” MightLastsReadingRealizingWrittenCenturyEmotionalDespairAnxietyGuiltProfoundOneselfInsightContemporaryPsychologicalAnalysisResentmentHostilityAccompanyDynamicsRepressedEmotional Power Book:The Discovery of Being Source: The Discovery of Being
“Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.” StatesJoyHateSidesEmotionalDespairBehaviorListsSuspiciousZealMinnesotans Book:Prior Bad Acts Source: Prior Bad Acts
“What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.” PeopleKindPainJoyEmotionalDespairGood And Bad Author:Barbara Cook