Bilrock Quotes & Sayings

Our growing dependence on technologies no one seems to understand or control has given rise to feelings of powerlessness and victimization. We find it more and more difficult to achieve a sense of continuity, permanence, or connection with the world around us. Relationships with others are notably fragile; goods are made to be used up and discarded; reality is experienced as an unstable environment of flickering images. Everything conspires to encourage escapist solutions to the psychological problems of dependence, separation, and individuation, and to discourage the moral realism that makes it possible for human beings to come to terms with existential constraints on their power and freedom. — Christopher Lasch

Addictions always originate in pain, whether felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anesthetics. Heroin and cocaine, both powerful physical painkillers, also ease psychological discomfort. — Gabor Mate

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms. — Kylie Tennant

And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky ... — Martin Luther King Jr.

The one thing that will finally make you feel you aren't missing something essential, such as the point. — Augusten Burroughs

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n. — John Milton