Dionna Young Quotes & Sayings

I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self; because everything intimate and accustomed is for an instant taken away; because we stand in the middle of a transition where we cannot remain standing. For this reason the sadness too passes: the new thing in us, the added thing, has entered into our heart, has gone into its inmost chamber and is not even there any more, - is already in our blood. And we do not learn what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing has happened, and yet we have changed, as a house changes into which a guest has entered. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night. — Tracy Chapman

Love is a believing creature. — Ovid

You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion. — Andreas Moritz

Although the medieval witch-cult of Western Europe derived from a primitive, non-selfconscious nature-religion, with sophistication it had become corrupt (as had paganism in ancient Greece) and developed into a pathological cult in which the doctrine and rites of the Christian Church were deliberately parodied, and evil instincts and desires were sanctioned and encouraged. — F. Marian McNeill

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget. — George Osborne