Poor or rich, death makes us all equal.
Never use a dwarf to measure the depth of the water.
Drink and sing: the dark night is ahead of us.
It is useful to first see the spark before the fire.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
An old dog can't get used to chains.
You get used to everything -- even hell.
Things that are useful to people go into the cooking pot.
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.
Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?
Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free
Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Being born Major Major Major was the second
Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing.
As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.
Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.
The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over, it's because you choose to.
Being bound to one particular storyline such that one’s narrative is rigid, does not imply the need to avoid formulating particular other kinds of possibilities. Rather, it involves being stuck in one self-limiting, self-reinforcing set of possibil...
