“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.” IfsWaySufferingWishPerfectNeededMoonEqualDiseaseErrorsBreadIntensityDesirableNot Being Perfect Author:Fernando Pessoa
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” PeopleIfsWishHurtEasierDiseaseUnderstoodSympatheticSmallpoxMeasles Author:Jennifer Niven
“If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.” IfsJobsWishActingSuccessfulDiseaseSkinsUnsuccessful Author:Marlon Brando