Jaded quotes

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 years later, I started thinking about writing about it. It's obviously an indelible thing when that happens, and I wasn't looking for material at the time or anything; it just started becoming relevant to me.

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

Gods have bloody hands.

I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

When I'm in my studio, it usually feels like a hassle to actually press all the buttons and make music come out the other end.

And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.