Checks Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers. — Tina Modotti

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working. — Shania Twain

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis. — Bell Hooks

Eddie, It's like you died that night, he whispers.
So that's it. I died.
I've been dead.
I blink back the tears and pick at the mattress, but I don't say anything. I don't know what I could say to him. I don't know how to convince him I'm still here when I'm not sure of it myself anymore. — Courtney Summers

Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American. — Thomas W. Horton

this is my landlord, Krook — Charles Dickens

Now our poor Gib never had a sense of humor to lose ... — Sharon Kay Penman

I die of thirst here at the fountainside. — Richard Wilbur

Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/
I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron. — Monique Wittig

The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point. — Jean Baudrillard