Gaspingly Quotes & Sayings

In man a working level of narcissism is inseparable from self-esteem, from a basic sense of self-worth. We have learned, mostly from Alfred Adler, that what man needs most is to feel secure in his self-esteem. But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm, but a creature with a name who lives in a world of symbols, on an abstract idea of his own worth, an idea composed of sounds, words, and images, in the air, in the mind, on paper. And this means that man's natural yearning for organismic activity, the pleasures of incorporation and expansion, can be fed limitlessly in the domain of symbols and so into immortality. The single organism can expand into dimensions of worlds and times without moving a physical limb; it can take eternity into itself even as it gaspingly dies. — Ernest Becker

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. — Frank Zappa

Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography. — Terry Pratchett

Are you a virgin by any chance?" he asked me once.
"Do I look like a bottle of olive oil by any chance, Raghu?" I countered and chuckled. — Kavipriya Moorthy

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always zero. It is ice in the veins. It's camera is an x-ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own. — R.S. Thomas

There's nothing like an orgasm to make a person think
and more often than not, to think too much. — Doug Cooper

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do. — Carlos Ghosn

All this seeing.
All this relentless taking in. — Lance Olsen

[T}he sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily. — Erich Fromm

Most people really don't like music - they just like the way it sounds. — Thomas Beecham