“What mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It’s tiring.”
Source: On having a pessimistic nature in “Jesmyn Ward: ‘So much of life is pain and sorrow and wilful ignorance’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/12/jesmyn-ward-sing-unburied-sing-interview-meet-author in The Guardian (2017 Nov 12)
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American writer 1977Related quotes
“People are tired of so much damn fraud.”
Statement during the daily press conference on February 04, 2019.
Source: [February 4 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvbgCu08syE&, Estrategia de búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Conferencia presidente AMLO, YouTube, Mexico City, Government of Mexico, Government of Mexico]
“What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.”
Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 291
“Push enough to make progress, but not so much that it is unsustainable.”
Source: https://jamesclear.com/goal-setting
“That so much time was wasted in this pain.”
Christ, Old Student in a New School (1972)
Context: That so much time was wasted in this pain.
Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down
To not return again!
A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips;
The laughter sets him free.
A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries.
The Fool is me!
And with one final shake of laughter
Breaks his bonds.
The nails fall skittering to marble floors.
And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.
Interview in The Believer magazine, (July 2004) http://www.believermag.com/issues/200407/?read=interview_zizek
1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)
Variant: The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.