Narcissuses Quotes & Sayings

Having set its mark on the generation before Cocteau's, symbolism expressed a form of inner dissidence confronting the narrow-minded materialism and utilitarian obsession of the industrial revolution, and hence a reaction to triumphant naturalism, in literature at least. Nourished by medieval, Renaissance, and Romantic art, symbolism, probably the last great backward-looking movement hatched in the West, had given rise to a desire to explore the secrets of the world and the confines of the soul. Beyond its androgynous Mercuries, its pale Narcissuses, and its Orpheuses borne by rosaries of angels, it gave rise to a whole misty alchemy wherein some found their way into esotericism and even into the religious, since the Universe was only the symbol of another world into which entrance was gained not only through poetry, spiritualism, dreams, and the Ideal, but also via the play of analogies and the study of ciphers. — Claude Arnaud

Make your own Miracles, don't wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy to make them real. — Steven Redhead

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people — Ahmed H. Zewail

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"
"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more. — Lev Grossman

Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes. — Frank Pittman

He knows what will upset me before it even happens and like a superhero, bends the track of the runaway train before it strikes. — Jodi Picoult

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions. — Josh Billings

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts. — Rudolf Steiner

Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandfather!' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree?' And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.'

Which of us was right, boss? — Nikos Kazantzakis

Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library. — Edward Eager

Photography is about how you look and how you dream and how you see and what your interests are. — David Doubilet