“A hero; in our dark, indifferent and cruel universe is the one who makes life bearable and meaningful for human condition.”
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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 169 (13 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Context: If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar
Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 18 (pp. 348-349)
Francesco Maria Molza (1489–1544) Italian poet
Canzone IV. Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 256.
Original: (Ma) bene a forza il caro e dolce riso
Scoprir il Paradiso
E far lieta fortuna d’atra e dura.
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty speech
Context: Continued unrestricted testing by the nuclear powers, joined in time by other nations which may be less adept in limiting pollution, will increasingly contaminate the air that all of us must breathe. Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard — and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby — who may be born long after we are gone — should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.