Verbosity Is Beauty

Meaningful quotes and snippets from films, music, tv series, books, plays, speeches, etc.

[ithinkthusiamfree]

The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more?

How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind.

To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.

—Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

[ithinkthusiamfree]

So throw away your baggage and go forward.

There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,

trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair.

That’s why you must walk so lightly.

Lightly my darling,

on tiptoes and no luggage,

not even a sponge bag,

completely unencumbered.

—Aldous Huxley, Island

[ithinkthusiamfree]

Change is freedom, change is life.

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.

—Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed

[ithinkthusiamfree]

You have to have a license and papers and all kinds of shit just to buy an airgun but people can have as many brats as they want. It should be the other way around!

—Flickering Lights, Anders Thomas Jensen

[ithinkthusiamfree]

Life is for sowing, the harvest is not here.

--- At Eternity's Gate

[ithinkthusiamfree]

"The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom."

--- Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously

[ithinkthusiamfree]

"Some people see the ugliness in this world. I choose to see the beauty. But beauty is a lure. We're trapped, Teddy. Lived our whole lives inside this garden, marveling at its beauty, not realizing there's an order to it, a purpose. And the purpose is to keep us in. The beautiful trap is inside of us... because it is us."

--Westworld, Season 1 Episode 10, The Bicameral Mind

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

[resqectable]

“Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.”

— Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance

[ithinkthusiamfree]

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

--- Jack London (Narrated by Ralph Fiennes in No Time to Die)

[universetalkz]

Don’t trust what you think sometimes.

Your mind is a minefield of conditioning and bias.

Don’t always trust what anyone else thinks either.

Be curious. Be skeptical. Be rational. Observe. Quiet the mind and listen for your knowing. Truth often comes as a whisper, not a shout.

[ithinkthusiamfree]

“It’s here. Right here,” she says. “My favorite time.”

He stares long enough for her heart to trip on its own beat.

“But every time I close my eyes, it just goes by faster.”

“Then don’t,” he says, then he gives up the space between, and kisses her again.

Blink.

--- (Shepard's Grace by briannetoma, Chapter 25: Carpe Damn)

[dakotaah]

[ithinkthusiamfree]

"Pain or damage doesn't end the world, or despair or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man and give some back."

- Al Swearengen, Deadwood

[ithinkthusiamfree]

We have the answer to all your fears

It’s short, it’s simple, it’s crystal clear

It’s round about, it’s somewhere here

Lost amongst our winnings

[quotemadness]

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[quotemadness]

“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

[quotemadness]

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness…”

— Kurt Vonnegut

[ithinkthusiamfree]

It's probably too late but