dreamy-conceit

[dreamy-conceit]

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

#oscar wilde #de profundis #sorrow #grief #sadness #quotes

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Don't ask me how I did it, I just did it — it was hard.

— On The Hunt x Chandler, 'Nothin' To It'

#on the hunt #chandler #determination #quotes #song lyrics

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Of course you don’t have any ideas. Sitting around waiting for an idea is the worst thing you can do. All ideas come out of the work itself.

— Artist Chuck Close to musician Paul Simon (quoted in the New York Times, July 2016)

#creativity #creative inspiration #creative writing #how to write #quotes #artisticjourney #artistic inspiration #artisticexpression

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All time ever does is pass and all I ever do is remember.

— Sue Zhao

#sue zhao #blossomfully #quotes #poetry #memory #time

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Getting to the summit [of Everest] is optional; getting down is mandatory.

— Ed Viesturs, high-altitude mountaineer

#life advice #setting priorities #goals #knowing when to quit #quotes #mountaineering #climbing everest

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To the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee—

— Captain Ahab (character), Herman Melville, 'Moby-Dick'

#moby dick #herman melville #captain ahab #revenge #quotes #vengeance #white whale #unyielding retribution

[dreamy-conceit]

To observe influencers at work is to observe a living metaphor of civilization meeting its ignoble end, and you can only take so much before you need to click on the accounts of reply guys and wannabes, to console yourself with the thought that there isn’t that much worth saving.

— Adrian Nathan West, 'Steroid to Heaven' (The Baffler, Jan 2024)

#influencers #social media #chronically online #internet personality #quotes

[dreamy-conceit]

The adage in sports is, if you know it’s coming, it’s an IQ test, not a drug test.

— Adrian Nathan West, 'Steroid to Heaven' (The Baffler, Jan 2024)

#sports #olympics #drug testing #doping #steroids #quotes

[dreamy-conceit]

Perfection was, for me, a kind of eternity I thought I could own. If every detail was in its place, I thought the world might just come to a stop and stay that way forever.

— Babe Paley (fictionalised), 'Feud: Capote vs the Swans' s02e07

#feud: capote vs the swans #perfection #perfectionist #cheating death #quotes

[dreamy-conceit]

The only thing we take at face value when dreaming are the emotions we experience as we toss and turn in our sleep. That doorway, that pit, that castle, that naked body writhing beneath us: none are real. But the fear, lust, and curiosity we experience as we encounter them is as real as the air you’re breathing now.

— Matt Zoller Seitz on 'Hannibal' as a kind of dream (Vulture, June 23, 2013)

#hannibal #dream #dream interpretation #lucid dreaming #quotes #emotions #emotional intelligence

[dreamy-conceit]

You watch the madness with rapt pleasure, never thinking, "Oh, that’s ridiculous and dumb, that could never happen," because you know what dreams feel like, and that you’re watching one.

— Matt Zoller Seitz on 'Hannibal' (Vulture, June 23, 2013)

#hannibal #hannibal lecter #will graham #hannigram #quotes

[dreamy-conceit]

It's the damnedest thing: The dead abandon you; then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead.

— Jennifer Senior, 'The Lost Diary of Bobby McIlvaine' (The Atlantic, Sep 2021). This piece about loss and grief after 9/11 won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

#grief #loss #9/11 #jennifer senior #quotes

[dreamy-conceit]

The decision you make in the instant you see the truth will let you live forever.

— Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, s01e12

#ghost in the shell #gits #quotes

[dreamy-conceit]

If you ever feel embarrassed about living paycheck to paycheck, just remember there are banks living bailout to bailout.

— Pat Mandziy (TikTok, 20 Dec 2024)

#late stage capitalism #bailouts #big banks #too big to fail #quotes #government bailouts #economics #cost of living crisis

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She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year. Her own birthday, and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought, one afternoon, that there was another date, of greater importance than all those; that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it?

— Tess Durbeyfield (character), written by Thomas Hardy, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'

#thomas hardy #tess of the d'urbervilles #foreshadowing #death #predicting your death #quotes #literature #english lit

[dreamy-conceit]

You know you don't have to be good at something to enjoy it. You don't have to get better at it, either. You can just enjoy it; that's fine.

— caoiltemaclean (TikTok, 20 Feb 2024)

#quotes #self care #hobbies #try new things

[dreamy-conceit]

The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunchpail fucking job: day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues until they get a positive result, and even then, have to stay on to make sure that result holds. I’m not saying you don’t have to worry about who wins the election. I’m saying you have to worry about every day before it and every day after. Forever. Although, on the plus side, I am told that, at some point, the sun will run out of hydrogen.

— Jon Stewart (The Daily Show, 12 Feb 2024)

#jon stewart #the daily show #us politics #activism #american politics #political philosophy #political activism #2024 elections #hope is a discipline #quotes