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“You know, there is only one letter's difference between lonely and lovely," I told him once when he was down. "There is only one letter's difference between loner and loser," he retorted.”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“Ich weiß nicht, ob die verdummte Unterhaltung nach und nach dem kollektiven Intellekt unserer Nation geschadet hat oder ob die geistige Faulheit des Publikums zuerst da war und wir sie nur bedient haben.”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“I've taken the liberty of giving us a full moon. I've arranged for all stoplights to stay green. I've made some phone calls to make sure you keep smiling. I've reserved the space underneath our feet. I've gone all out for you, so why don't you go with me?”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“It shouldn't make any difference, but Friday and Saturday nights are the worst. They're the worst because the loneliness is magnified. The best you can do is hope that there is someone else like you out there, but if there is, you will never meet this person because she doesn't get out either.
So, you're left with your thoughts, and your thoughts are living people in your brain who call and hang up and lounge around like armed security guards who happen to be beautiful. In between these thoughts, you think about what's going on out there. The girl of your dreams is being ravaged by a man who doesn't have a care in the world. Just to hear her voice would make you happy for a week, but he gets to spend the day and night with her and thinks nothing of it. (…), there are boyfriends and girlfriends, people in love, wide awake. They hang out. They hang out. They hang out. They do nothing worthwhile except each other. Friends, friends, friends. Fiends. Inside jokes. There are so many stupid conversations going on right now. You could be having a meaningful conversation with a taxi driver. You could talk to him about how Travis Bickle's taxi was a metaphor for loneliness. (…) You have a gray tint on your contact lenses. But you have your work. They don't have that. They are cowards. Everyone seems so afraid to be alone. It takes strength to lie there alone and take it. They just want to copulate, and that's their biggest concern of the night. You want a tragedy. An assassination. A massacre. An earthquake. A city falling to the ground. Something to get the people on TV to be on the same page as you.”
― Torture the Artist
So, you're left with your thoughts, and your thoughts are living people in your brain who call and hang up and lounge around like armed security guards who happen to be beautiful. In between these thoughts, you think about what's going on out there. The girl of your dreams is being ravaged by a man who doesn't have a care in the world. Just to hear her voice would make you happy for a week, but he gets to spend the day and night with her and thinks nothing of it. (…), there are boyfriends and girlfriends, people in love, wide awake. They hang out. They hang out. They hang out. They do nothing worthwhile except each other. Friends, friends, friends. Fiends. Inside jokes. There are so many stupid conversations going on right now. You could be having a meaningful conversation with a taxi driver. You could talk to him about how Travis Bickle's taxi was a metaphor for loneliness. (…) You have a gray tint on your contact lenses. But you have your work. They don't have that. They are cowards. Everyone seems so afraid to be alone. It takes strength to lie there alone and take it. They just want to copulate, and that's their biggest concern of the night. You want a tragedy. An assassination. A massacre. An earthquake. A city falling to the ground. Something to get the people on TV to be on the same page as you.”
― Torture the Artist
“The United States, with all her time zones and logos, was the home to so many lonely souls, but none at that particular moment felt such an extraordinary loneliness as Blue Gene Mapother, who felt like someone had just signed the divorce papers that would separate himself from himself.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
“Ik vind het vervelend dat ik het je moet vertellen, maar je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik wil je geen pijn doen door dit te zeggen. Ik zeg het omdat ik het wel zo eerlijk vind om open kaart te spelen voor we beginnen. Ik hoop dat je dat waardeert, want vanaf nu zal niemand meer open of eerlijk tegen je zijn. Dus nogmaals, ik zeg het je vooraf maar: je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik heb het voor je opgeschreven. Heel graag gedaan.”
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“Manche Leute sind nicht klug genug, um nervös zu sein.”
― Irgendwann wird es gut
― Irgendwann wird es gut
“Sieh sie dir an", sagte Vincent. "Alle finden einfach zueinander. Sie kommen so mühelos zusammen. Warum passiert mir das nicht?”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“Was uns nicht umbringt, bewirkt nur, dass wir sterben wollen.”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“Wenn man sich in der Welt umsieht, ist das einzig Vernünftige - sie zu meiden.”
― Irgendwann wird es gut
― Irgendwann wird es gut
“Was ist trauriger: ältere Menschen wegen allem, was sie gesehen, gehabt und verloren? Oder Kinder ohne jeden blassen Schimmer von allem, was sie sehen, haben und verlieren werden?
Das hier war noch trauriger: ein Kind mit der bedrückenden Weisheit eines alten Menschen.”
― Torture the Artist
Das hier war noch trauriger: ein Kind mit der bedrückenden Weisheit eines alten Menschen.”
― Torture the Artist
“Mir fiel auf, dass die scheußlichsten Orte offenbar die hellste Beleuchtung haben, solche langen Leuchtstoffröhren. Seminarräume, Krankenhäuser, Arztpraxen, Büros, öffentliche Gebäude: Alle von mir gefürchteten Örtlichkeiten haben eine derartige Beleuchtung.
Ihr Licht ist niemals schmeichelhaft, selbst dein kleinster Makel tritt hervor. Diese Leuchten kreischen: "Sieh her, das ist es! Das ist deine Wirklichkeit! Sieh sie dir an! Sie ist so häßlich!" So ein Licht wirft keine Schatten. Alles ist perfekt ausgeleuchtet und nicht zu übersehen.”
― Torture the Artist
Ihr Licht ist niemals schmeichelhaft, selbst dein kleinster Makel tritt hervor. Diese Leuchten kreischen: "Sieh her, das ist es! Das ist deine Wirklichkeit! Sieh sie dir an! Sie ist so häßlich!" So ein Licht wirft keine Schatten. Alles ist perfekt ausgeleuchtet und nicht zu übersehen.”
― Torture the Artist
“- Galima gauti saulės smūgį, bet mėnulio smūgio negausi.”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“I thought about how in movies, usually action movies, a cheap way of getting the audience to invest in the plot is to endanger the life of a dog. There can be fifty men graphically terminated by machine-gun fire or an entire building full of workers destroyed, but no one will stand for a cute little dog being killed. And almost always, the dog's life is spared to the relief of the audience.”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“My theory goes like this - if you want to be with a real person and experience that person's essence, you must be alone with them.”
― The Anomalies
― The Anomalies
“Die Welt brauchte mehr Menschen wie sie. Menschen, die nachdachten ohne zu reden, statt zu reden ohne nachzudenken.”
― Irgendwann wird es gut
― Irgendwann wird es gut
“Ich muss daran glauben, dass sich Menschen ändern können. Vielleicht irre ich mich, das ist sogar wahrscheinlich , aber ich muss daran glauben, damit alles andere einen Sinn ergibt.”
― Torture the Artist
― Torture the Artist
“An Stelle gut geschriebener, geistreicher Produkte haben wir der Öffentlichkeit eine geistlose Mischung aus Sex, Gewalt und Dummheit präsentiert.
Krischnamurti war es wohl, der sinngemäß gesagt hat: "Wenn Künstlern nichts einfällt, sagen sie es mit Sex." - Ein Befund, dem die Musikvideos, Filmhits und TV-Shows nur allzusehr entsprechen.”
― Torture the Artist
Krischnamurti war es wohl, der sinngemäß gesagt hat: "Wenn Künstlern nichts einfällt, sagen sie es mit Sex." - Ein Befund, dem die Musikvideos, Filmhits und TV-Shows nur allzusehr entsprechen.”
― Torture the Artist




