Philip Connors quotes

“One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'”
-- Philip Connors

#Suicide Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'”
-- Philip Connors

#Nice Quotes #Wine Quotes #Beer Quotes

“The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.”
-- Philip Connors

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.”
-- Philip Connors

#Transition Quotes #Connections Quotes #World Quotes

“I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the collisions and connections. I like the way they help me see the world from a fresh angle.”
-- Philip Connors

Source : Philip Connors (2011). “Fire Season: Field notes from a wilderness lookout”, p.124, Pan Macmillan

#Mixing Quotes #Transition Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.”
-- Philip Connors

Source : "Fictional character: Phil Connors". "Groundhog Day", www.imdb.com. 1993.

#Groundhog Day Quotes #What If Quotes #Today Quotes

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.”

“Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.”

“There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press

“When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.”

“Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.”

“It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.”

“The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.”

“Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.”

“We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “Love and Friendship: A Novel”, p.440, Open Road Media

“Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.”

Source : Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.164, Pan Macmillan