Lagerkvist The Dwarf Quotes & Sayings

And they are deformed though it does not show on the outside. I live only my dwarf life. I never go around tall and smooth-featured. I am ever myself, always the same, I live one life alone. I have no other being inside me. And I recognize everything within me, nothing ever comes up from my inner depths, nothing there is shrouded in mystery. Therefore I do not fear the things which frighten them, the incoherent, the unknown, the mysterious. Such things do not exist for me. There is nothing "different" about me. — Par Lagerkvist

I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we did live forever, then we would live forever, which is why I would not live forever. — Heather Whitestone

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza

I've come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what's ahead and feel the peace that "all is well in the universe." When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future. — Marci Shimoff

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries. — Allan Savory

Why don't we all just get a long-neck? — Hank Williams Jr.

The man was remarkably . . . well, homely. Ugly, not to put too fine a point on it. His face was deeply pitted with scars, obviously the victim of a terrible case of adolescent acne. He wore horn-rimmed glasses and had thinning brown hair, round shoulders, a pigeon chest. — Joseph Finder

You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy. — Sugata Mitra

It was a story of people who don't choose life over death until it's too late to know the difference, people whose goodness is forgotten, left behind like a child's toy in a dusty playroom, people who see many things and remember only a handful of the them and learn from even fewer, people who hurt themselves, who wreck their own lives and then go on to wreck the lives of those around them, who cannot be helped or assuaged by love or kindness or luck or charm, who forget kindness, the feeling and practice of it, and how it can save even the worst, most misshapen life from despair. It was just a story about despair. — Robert Goolrick

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist. — Luigi Pirandello

I do not seek. I find. — Pablo Picasso

(Your) potential doesn't mean shit if you don't get off your ass and start working. — Rishank Jhavar

I am a woman built on the wreckage of herself, Narrator — Chris Cleave

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else. — Arthur Rimbaud