I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
“I am a MODEL CITIZEN and anyone that tells you anything else is lying and probably betraying absolutely everyone they’ve been in contact with—jesus christ... oh, my morals. My moral values. Oh god. They’re all gone. Oh, they’re all gone.”
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preemptive paranoia.
-"I need you to not let me into the prison."
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
"Can’t help but feel like it- it’s- it’s kind of- it’s kind of my fault."
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
"What if I put myself in, Sam? What if I did that? What if I put myself in the prison?!"
ranaltboo // Our Man in Havana, Graham Greene // Lost In The Crowd, Brent Jones // ranboolive // ranaltboo // The Fall, Albert Camus // Dream // ranaltboo // ranboolive // Adam Gopnik // theenderwalker // Ranboo and Awesamdude // ranaltboo // Hamlet, William Shakespeare // ranaltboo // ranboolive // The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde // Awesamdude, in Ranboo's memory book// Henry VI, pt III, William Shakspeare // Survivor's Guilt, Miles Johnston // ranboolive
on morals, loyalty, and guilt