“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 332
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21
Source: Billy Budd, Sailor
Context: Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. In pronounced cases there is no question about them. But in some supposed cases, in various degrees supposedly less pronounced, to draw the exact line of demarcation few will undertake tho' for a fee some professional experts will. There is nothing nameable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.
As quoted in "Sun Ra : Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh at missionCreep http://missioncreep.com/mw/sunra.html
“You are never stronger… than when you land on the other side of despair.”
Source: White Teeth
"An Interview With Qian Julie Wang" in Penguin Random House https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/qian-julie-wang-interview/
Words, Wide Night, from The Other Country (1990).
“Physics and psychology are going somewhere, but where they do not know. But… they are traveling”
Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961)
Context: Physics and psychology are going somewhere, but where they do not know. But... they are traveling from: Democritan permanent particles and the Cartesian mind necessarily aware.... they are both traveling away from the same point of origin and in the same general direction: from the isolation of supposedly permanent "substances" towards the identification of changing relations potentially affecting everything; briefly, from substance to changing relations and structures.
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
