“…nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.”

—  Alec Guinness

A Positively Final Appearance (Penguin, 1999), 3rd hardback edition, p. 2.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "…nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it." by Alec Guinness?
Alec Guinness photo
Alec Guinness 2
English actor 1914–2000

Related quotes

Ferdinand Marcos photo

“He was hanging on, looking for a life preserver. He was a desperate man clutching at straws.”

Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989) former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986

U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt, after his telephone conversation with Marcos, March 1986
About

Gabrielle Zevin photo

“Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me… I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

“You are joy, looking for a way to express.
It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager.
That's who you are.”

Esther Hicks (1948) American writer
Milkha Singh photo

“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”

Milkha Singh (1935) Indian track and field athlete

The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)

Bernard Cornwell photo

“"Don't waste your life, Tom." "I think I already have, father." "You're just young. It seems like that when you're young. Life's nothing but joy or misery when you're young."”

Bernard Cornwell The Grail Quest

Thomas of Hookton and Father Hobbe, p. 140
The Grail Quest, The Archer's Tale/Harlequin (2000)

Jonathan Davis photo

“"Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!" (Jon commenting on the parents that blame music for the violence.)”

Jonathan Davis (1971) Heavy metal singer, frontman for Korn

“Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.”

Charles Sheffield book Convergence

Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 26 (p. 516)

Guillaume de Machaut photo

“And Music is an art which likes people to laugh and sing and dance. It cares nothing for melancholy, nor for a man who sorrows over what is of no importance, but ignores, instead, such folk. It brings joy everywhere it's present; it comforts the disconsolate, and just hearing it makes people rejoice.”

Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) French poet and composer

Et musique est une science
Qui veut qu'on rie et chante et dance.
Cure n'a de merencolie,
Ne d'homme qui merencolie
A chose qui ne puet valoir,
Eins met tels gens en nonchaloir.
Partout ou elle est joie y porte;
Les desconfortez reconforte,
Et nes seulement de l'oir
Fait elle les gens resjoir.
"Le Prologue", line 85; translation from Ross W. Duffin (ed.) A Performer's Guide to Medieval Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000) p. 190.

Chinmayananda Saraswati photo

“Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever changing world, there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound come in human life; they are just like the two sides of the same coin.”

Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

Jodi Picoult photo

“The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Related topics