Prisert Quotes & Sayings

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature. — August Bournonville

The Son of God reveals Himself in me, and out of devotion to Him service becomes my everyday way of life. — Oswald Chambers

Usually we are saying only part of the truth. — Erno Rubik

In the evenings in bed, with the light out, I tried to picture death, the "most nothing of all." In imagination I suppressed all the circumstances of my life and I felt gripped in ever tighter circles of panic. There was no longer any "I." What is it after all, "I"? ...Then one night, a marvelous idea came to me: Instead of just submitting to this panic, I would try to observe it, to see where it is, what it is. I perceived then that it was
connected to a contraction in my stomach, a little under my ribs, and also in my throat...I forced myself to unclench, to relax my stomach. The panic disappeared ... when I tried again to think about death, instead of being gripped by the claws of panic I was filled by an entirely new feeling, whose name I did not know, something between mystery and hope."
-Mount Analogue, Rene Daumal — Rene Daumal

The absence of fear is love. — Chris Murphy

How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice! — Aldous Huxley

Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before. — John Berendt

If I wanted to work financially, I would have made a series of different choices. I do get offered lots of movies which you could make a lot of money out of. And I always say, 'Why would I do that, when someone else could do it much better than me? Why would I want to do an action picture? Why?' — Stephen Daldry

Life destination is death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations. — Karl Marx

We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anxiety is the normality of our age, — Alex Colville

We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return ... The old will die and the young will forget. — David Ben-Gurion

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. — Cormac McCarthy