“Ah, life, young and fragile life, sent forth from the dependable darkness, from the snug warmth of the maternal womb into a vast, unfamiliar and illuminated world! How it flinches and draws back, filled with aversion and discouragement! How it hesitates to accept the venture proposed to it!”
“Nimrod” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/shops/nimrod.htm
His father, Living things
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Polish novelist and painter 1892–1942Related quotes
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 2
St. 1.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
Source: Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954), p. 11
“Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality.”
Source: LSD : My Problem Child (1980), Ch. 1 : How LSD Originated
Context: Slowly I came back from a weird, unfamiliar world to reassuring everyday reality. The horror softened and gave way to a feeling of good fortune and gratitude, the more normal perceptions and thoughts returned, and I became more confident that the danger of insanity was conclusively past.
Now, little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“How small a thought it takes to fill a life.”
“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”