Post Modernist Pessimism Quotes & Sayings

The path of a man's life is straight, straight, straight, until the moment when it isn't anymore, and after that it begins to meander around aimlessly, and then get tangled, and then at some point the path gets so confusing that the man's ability to move around in time, his device for conveyance, his memory of what he loves, the engine that moves him forward, it can break, and he can get permanently stuck in his own history. — Charles Yu

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress. — Allison Janney

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle.

You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along. It just takes practice. — Timothy Ferriss

Severely bifurcated as he: someone who could be so utterly confident in some realms and so utterly despondent in others. — Hanya Yanagihara

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy ... cle. — Arlo Guthrie

Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself. — Annette Vaillancourt

One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world. — Fannie Lou Hamer

I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world. — Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits — Edsger W. Dijkstra

We're living among infinite possibilities. And the prevalent philosophies of post-modernist pessimism that come out of the universities are really a major tragedy. The opportunities for progress and change ... are absolutely tremendous. Anybody who tells you that we're running out of resources or in a terrible mess
they are idiots. We can't run out of resources. Resources exist when the human mind sees how to use something. To say we are running out of resources is like saying we are running out of brain cells. — Robert Anton Wilson

I have lived the life I longed for in my heart. And it is beautiful there. — Samantha Bruce-Benjamin

Reading is the basics for all learning. — George W. Bush

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. — Ian McEwan

If you can't, or don't wish to, cut back production, then try to manufacture demand - the story of the twentieth century? — Thomas Thwaites