“...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingHumansPersonsBookRealSelfCharacterCareSoundFictionSituationReaderPaperInstitutionsTiredDon't CareMeaningfulReal LifeSuspenseCodeTensionSelf RespectFascinatingThreateningDollsDilemmaI'm TiredImmoralityVictorianNo RespectBooks And MoviesAmorality Author:Olive Ann Burns
“To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.” WantNeedsHumansMeanEmotionAdultsOppositesTensionCherishAdoreOpposingReconcileConflicting EmotionsConflicting Ideas Author:Stephen Fry
“It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.” HumansHappensHumanityHuman BeingsCuttingStrangeDignityContactTensionTouchedTouchingTendernessWholenessMisunderstandingStrange ThingsCutting Off Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews
“Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.” HumansExistenceWorryConditionsEssentialsAnxietyPreservesTensionBoredomHuman ConditionSensitivityConfrontationHuman ExistenceAnxiety And Worry Author:Rollo May
“Do things with your whole heart, with as much intensity as you are capable of. Anything done halfheartedly never brings joy to life. It only brings misery, anxiety, torture, and tension, because whenever you do anything halfheartedly you are dividing yourself into two parts, and that is one of the greatest calamities that has happened to human beings - they are all split.” HumansHeartTwoDoneWholeMotivationalJoyHuman BeingsHappenedAnxietyCapableMiseryTortureTensionIntensitySplitsCalamityDividing Author:Rajneesh
“The clarity of gender makes possible the human dialectic. Let the lines of balanced tension go slack and the structure dissolves into the ooze of androgyny and narcissism.” MenHumansLinesMen And WomenStructureGenderClarityTensionBalancedNarcissismDialecticsAndrogyny Author:Bill Vaughan