Babylon Channel 4 Quotes & Sayings

To stand in the shadow
of the scar up in the air.
To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.
Unrecognized,
for you alone.
With all there is room for in that,
even without
language. — Paul Celan

You have to accept this reality as the madhouse walls bulge break and the terrified insane flood our ugly streets. you have to accept terrible reality. — Charles Bukowski

Whatever Marya's state, whatever mine, I will find her, and I will carry her home. — Josiah Bancroft

Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine. — Lauren Groff

Don't hate the bullies. Experience tells me that hating them, or being angry with them, will always make it worse. Instead, put your arm around them. Love them. Tell them that they are valuable. Tell them that you expect great things from them. They will stop the bullying. They will stop, because they will start to love themselves. And people who love themselves don't bully others. — Dan Pearce

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul. — Rumi

Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. — Margaret Atwood

On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much. — Helen Macdonald

(As Joan Didion said, "I don't know what I think until I write about it.") — Elizabeth Gilbert

Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable. — David Hume

Is not our body in itself nothing but a common central effect of our senses - if we have mastery over our senses - if we are able to transform them into activity at will - to center them at a common point, then it only depends on us - to give ourselves the body we want.
Indeed, in our senses are nothing other than modifications of the mental organ - of the absolute element - then with mastery over this element we shall also be able to modify and direct our senses as we please. — Novalis

It was better to be known as the kid who could draw than as the short kid. — Shaun Tan

My mamma says I shouldn't go on the other side ... My mama says the same thing. But she never said nothing about sitting on it — Jacqueline Woodson

Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work. — George MacDonald

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process. — Daley Thompson