“We can’t choose what we want and don’t want and that’s the hard lonely truth. Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us. We can’t escape who we are.”Tagged: The Axiom Of Equality, Fatalism
“I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t have a story.”Tagged: The Secret of Secrey, Mystery, The Magic of Not Understanding, Quote of the Moment
“There’s only a tiny heartbeat and solitude, bright sunny wall and a sense of no escape. Time that doesn’t move, time that couldn’t be called time. And trapped in the heart of light: the little prisoner, unflinching.”Tagged: Time, Nihilism, No Exit
“Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it’s there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it’s not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified…”Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy
“The pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.”Tagged: Idealism, The Ideal, Searching for Perfect Things
“A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn’t understand.”Tagged: The Magic of Being Misunderstood, Being Otherworldly In The World, The Secret of Secrey
“We don’t get to choose the people we are.”Tagged: Identity & Self, Fatalism, Identity, We Are Who We Are, The Axiom Of Equality
“There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.”Tagged: Photography, Art, beauty, Aesthetics, Quote of the Moment
“Most people seemed satisfied with the thin decorative glaze and the artful stage lighting that, sometimes, made the bedrock atrocity of the human predicament look somewhat more mysterious or less abhorrent.”Tagged: Blind Eye To Reality, Rotten Reality, Sad World
“Old age, sickness, death. No escape for anyone. Even the beautiful ones were like soft fruit about to spoil.”Tagged: Youth, Age, Young/Dying
“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.”Tagged: Depression, Emptiness, Revulsion
“Act of rebellion. Life: vacant, vain, intolerable. What loyalty did I owe it? None whatsoever. Why not beat Fate to the punch?”Tagged: Suicide
“The heart-shock of believing, for only a moment, that you might just have what could never be yours.”Tagged: Unrequited Love, Impossible Ideas
“I couldn’t have put into words what I felt, though it was something deep and primary.”Tagged: Speechless, When Words Fail, No Words, Quote of the Moment, The Impossibility of Communication
“The thought of her flooded every corner of my mind with light and poured brightness into miraculous lofts I hadn’t even known were there, vistas that seemed to exist not at all except in relationship to her.”Tagged: Love, Infatuation, Love Image As Escape