Iknewithurts Quotes & Sayings

Normal people couldn't be allowed to know how weird the world actually was. — Gavin G. Smith

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus. — Mohamed ElBaradei

You can always tell when an old person has no idea what you are talking about, because they mess up the wording almost as if they're trying to defeat the thing you are discussing by refusing to name it correctly. — Matthew Quick

Theory in any branch of science entails a risk of detachment from reality — Quammen, David

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can shut themselves up in a coterie and forget the cold outer world. The man of science has no need of a coterie, since he is thought well of by everybody except his colleagues. The artist, on the contrary, is in the painful situation of having to choose between being despised and being despicable. — Bertrand Russell

Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it. — Jonathan Franzen

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch. — Jaggi Vasudev