Burliuk Painter Quotes & Sayings

There's a psychological mechanism, I've come to believe, that prevents most of us from imagining the moment of our own death. For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of absolute helplessness, it would be very hard to live. It would be unbearably obvious that death is inscribed in everything that constitutes life, that any moment of your existence may be only a breath away from being the last. We would be continuously devastated by the magnitude of that inescapable fact. Still, as we mature into our mortality, we begin to gingerly dip our horror-tingling toes into the void, hoping that our mind will somehow ease itself into dying, that God or some other soothing opiate will remain available as we venture into the darkness of non-being. — Aleksandar Hemon

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not a choice. You must take it. The only question is how. — Henry Ward Beecher

All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them. — Indira Gandhi

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. — Janet Fitch

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. — Terry Waite

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead. — Alexander Stoddart

I'm kidnapped by aliens, forced to eke out a living on an ice planet, and now I'm basically married to Mr. Tall, Dark, and Super Pissy. — Ruby Dixon

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy. — William Shawcross

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening. — Marco Rubio

...the wrath of God pales beside that of man. — Felix J. Palma