Mick Farren quotes

“You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.154, Macmillan

#Fear Quotes #Real Quotes #Names Quotes

“Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.332, Macmillan

#Invention Quotes #Obsolete Quotes

“We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.170, Macmillan

#Thinking Quotes #Dust Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Source: thequietus.com

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Source: thequietus.com

#Wall Quotes #Three Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Source: thequietus.com

#Morning Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Crow Quotes

“I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Source: thequietus.com

#Writing Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Personality Quotes

“You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Source: thequietus.com

#Home Quotes #Use Quotes

“I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.”
-- Mick Farren

Source : Source: thequietus.com

#Fun Quotes #Hate Quotes #Stones Quotes

“Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.”

“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”

“Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.”

“The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.”

“The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses”

“Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.”

“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”

“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011

“A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan