A Life Lived Ridiculously Quotes & Sayings

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself. — Wislawa Szymborska

A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into your warm, green ocean... — Jeffrey L. Hollman

I'm sure there are many other Forrest Gump moments that I'm forgetting. I don't mention them as boasts, but rather as evidence of how ridiculously lucky I have been to have lived the life that I have. — Michael J. Fox

Complaints of feeling cut off, shut off, out of touch, feeling apart or strange, of things being out of focus or unreal, of not feeling one with people, or of the point having gone out of life, interest flagging, things seeming futile and meaningless, all describe in various ways this state of mind. Patients usually call it 'depression', but it lacks the heavy, black, inner sense of brooding, of anger and of guilt, which are not difficult to discover in classic depression. Depression is really a more extraverted state of mind, which, while the patient is turning his aggression inwards against himself, is part of a struggle not to break out into overt angry and aggressive behaviour. The states described above are rather the 'schizoid states'. They are definitely introverted. Depression is object-relational. The schizoid person has renounced objects, even though he still needs them. — Harry Guntrip

My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. — Annabelle R. Charbit

We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak English. — John Huppenthal

The statues carved here may be viewed as fragments of consciousness itself, or the residue of violent emotions — Linda Lappin

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. — James A. Garfield

All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected. — Abhishek Ratna