Nick Hexum famous quotes

There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable.
-- Nick Hexum

#Sadness #Silence #Comfort

The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.
-- Nick Hexum

#Swimming #Firsts #Chill

Stay positive and love your life.
-- Nick Hexum

#Love You #Stay Positive #And Love

We've got the slowest 311 song ever, called 'Solar Flare,' which is a scathing political rap that [vocalist] S.A. [Martinez] puts over a really slow, heavy thing, And then there's also a really fast one called 'It's Getting OK Now,' which is [guitarist] Tim Mahoney channeling Dimebag Darrell [Abbott of Pantera].
-- Nick Hexum

#Song #Rap #Political

Life's a bowl of punch, go ahead and spike it!
-- Nick Hexum

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.