Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir."
Source: Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
Quoted in Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography (1964)
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) Argentine novelist
"Llega un momento en la vida en que, haga uno lo que haga, solamente aburre. Queda entonces una manera de recuperar el prestigio: morir."
Source: Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo, 1969.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Talks and Dialogues Saanen 1968 : 1st Public Talk (7 July 1968) http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=4&chid=2 <br class="br">1960s <br class="br">Context: There are the states of inattention and of attention. When you are completely giving your mind, your heart, your nerves, everything you have, to attend, then the old habits, the mechanical responses, do not enter into it, thought does not come into it at all. But we cannot maintain that all the time, so we are mostly in a state of inattention, a state in there is not an alert choiceless awareness. What takes place? There is inattention and rare attention and we are trying to bridge the one to the other. How can my inattention become attention or, can attention be complete, all the time?
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) American author
Source: Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
“When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: The Eternity Code
Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener
"Days I enjoy", quoted in Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993) by Suzanne Raitt, p. 89
Context: Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens,
When I have no engagements written on my block,
When no one comes to disturb my inward peace,
When no one comes to take me away from myself
And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle,
A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection,
Being so contrived that it takes too long a time
To get myself back to myself when they have gone.
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (20 March 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Ghost Of Corporate Future
Soviet Kitsch (2004)