“Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.”
Quotes about laughter and joy
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Source: As quoted in "Kate Bush Speaks" by Owen Myers in Fader (23 November 2016)
Context: I'm really very happy if people can connect at all to anything I do. I don't really mind if people mishear lyrics or misunderstand what the story is. I think that's what you have to let go of when you send it out in the world. I'm sure with a lot of paintings, people don't understand what the painter originally meant, and I don't really think that matters. I just think if you feel something, that's really the ideal goal. If that happens, then I'm really happy.
“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
2005
“Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter.”
“Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.”
Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)
Context: Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)