“I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.”
Source: Skin Game
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Jim Butcher383
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“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.”
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing https://books.google.com/books?id=-T3QhPjIxhIC&lpg=PP1&dq=%22I%20have%20dreams%2C%20and%20I%20have%20nightmares.%20I%20overcame%20the%20nightmares%20because%20of%20my%20dreams.%22&pg=PA254#v=onepage (2006) by Larry Chang (page 254)
Derek Parfit book Reasons and Persons
Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 281
Context: Is the truth depressing? Some may find it so. But I find it liberating, and consoling. When I believed that my existence was a further fact, I seemed imprisoned in myself. My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was darkness. When I changed my view, the walls of my glass tunnel disappeared. I now live in the open air. There is still a difference between my life and the lives of other people. But the difference is less. I am less concerned about the rest of my own life, and more concerned about the lives of others.
Neil Simon (1927–2018) playwright, writer, academic
The Play Goes On (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999) p. 260