285 Millimeters Quotes & Sayings

For in a real tragedy, it is not the hero who perishes; it is the chorus. — Joseph Brodsky

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I'm encouraging myself to live in the present moment. — Deepak Chopra

It exists only for me. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture. — Roland Barthes

Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me. — Clarice Lispector

Why is this painful journey so indispensable to the acquisition of true wisdom? ... It is as if the mind were a squeamish organ that refused to entertain difficult truths unless encouraged to do so by difficult events. "Happiness is good for the body," Proust tells us, "but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind." These griefs put us through a form of mental gymnastics which we would have avoided in happier times. Indeed, if a genuine priority is the development of our mental capacities, the implication is that we would be better off being unhappy than content, better off pursuing tormented love affairs than reading Plato or Spinoza. (Proust writes) A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and more vital than does a man of genius who interests us. — Alain De Botton

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement. — John Hume