quotes about Terrible Events

last updated: November 28, 2023

Often, my central challenge is figuring out how do I build trust, how do I acquaint people who've just endured some terrible event - losing their child to murder, say, or being sexually assaulted - with the bizarre and sometimes invasive nature of in-depth interviews that aren't just a quick list of ten questions?
-- Sarah Stillman

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“Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact that they do.”
“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?'”
“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
“Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.”

Source : Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press, 1994.
“It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?”

Source : V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.87, A&C Black
“The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.”
“It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.”
“Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.”
“Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit...”
“A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.”