Paul G. Tremblay quotes

“The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.”
-- Paul G. Tremblay

#Character Quotes #Doe Quotes #Coffins Quotes

“The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.”

“In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.”

“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.”

“Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.”

Source : "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.

“Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.21

“The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.”

“Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.”

“(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.”

“There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.”