quotes about Pandora's Box

“Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head. (Gareth van Meer)”

“To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”

“I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.”

“This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling”

“When I get attacked, I always attack back, if I am attacked unfairly. I've been attacked many times and I don't do it back because they happen to be right. I mean, people happen to be right.”

“I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?”

“Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.”

“For it must be very lonely being dead.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

“Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.”

“People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.”