“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.” ArtFeelingsDreamPainTogetherJoyArtistHumanitySpeakWonderCreativityOur LivesMysteryCreationSorrowIllusionCapacityDelightConvictionPityAspirationSubtleSolidarityFellowshipInvincibleUnbornLatentCreating Beauty Book:The Portable Conrad Source: The Portable Conrad
“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.” FirstsFeelingsPainRememberSidesReligiousPleasureMysteryFiguresAspectFallenRitualCosmicConventionalCapturedMenaceFolkloreReligious RitualsMaleficent Book:The Complete Fiction Collection vol III Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.” IfsWorldLongPainJoySufferingGamesMysteryWasteDelightCrueltyCompassBrutesSkullsBumpsCanaries Author:Annie Dillard
“Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.” GivingBelieveStillsPainTeachMysterySorrowInfiniteRemainsPityThanksVeils Author:Robert Nathan
“There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.” StillsEarthPainSufferingStrongGrowsMysteryWeakTherapyInjuryDisabilitySaddest Author:Silas Weir Mitchell