Boris Gregoric > Boris's Quotes

“Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.”
― Paul Valery, The Art of Poetry

“The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself.” Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has a right to step, save the proprietor and his friends; which can benefit nobody, save the proprietor and his servants. Let these sales multiply, and soon the people — who have been neither able nor willing to sell, and who have received none of the proceeds of the sale — will have nowhere to rest, no place of shelter, no ground to till. They will die of hunger at the proprietor’s door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, “So perish idlers and vagrants!”
― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?

“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
― Gore Vidal

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
― Georges Clemenceau

“This was just what people did now. We went from emotion to phone. This was how you didn’t die in the twenty-first century.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables, qui ont tous été remplacés.”
― Georges Clemenceau

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Али ако умрем, погледаћу последњи пут у небо, yтеху моју, и смешићу се.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
― Sophocles

“We are a generation without farewell, stealing away like thieves, because we are afraid of our heart's cry. We are a generation without homecoming, for we have nothing we could come home to, and we have no one to take care of our hearts––so we have become a generation without farewell and without homecoming.

But we are a generation of arrival. Perhaps we are a generation full of arrival on a new star, in a new life. Full of arrival under a new sun, in new hearts. Perhaps we are a generation full of arrival at a new love, at a new laughter, at a new God.”
― Wolfgang Borchert, The Man Outside; The Prose Works of Wolfgang Borchert

“It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief.”
― Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

“Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.”
― Orson Welles

“How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

“There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

“The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Well, friends, nobody owns nothing in this world. Even your breath is just loaned to you.”
― Loretta Lynn, Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

“You can lie to yourself all you want, but you cannot drag me into it. And so it goes for pronouns. If I intentionally call a man “she,” I have lied. I have conveyed something that isn’t true. Despite my polite intentions, all I’ve done is contribute to the confusion, dishonesty, and intellectual chaos rampant in our culture.”
― Matt Walsh, Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians

“That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.”
― Paul Valéry

“Ce qu'est beau dans le monde animal c'est qu'ils savent sans se dire, tout et tout !... et de très loin ! à vitesse-lumière !... nous avec la tête pleine de mots, effrayant le mal qu'on se donne pour s'emberlifiquer en pire ! plus rien savoir !... tout barafouiller, rien saisir !... si on se l'agite! la grosse nénette !... pas un mili d'onde !... tout nous frise !... file !...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, D'un château l'autre

“There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.”
― William James

“For the majority of human history, it was taken for granted that a person’s status as “man” or “woman” was purely biological and determined by his or her sex at birth. Nobody had any notion of a “gender spectrum” or “gender fluidity.” There have always been effeminate men and masculine women, but there was never any thought given to the possibility that the effeminate man might really be a woman, and the masculine woman might really be a man. But as the irrational, anti-scientific, and superstitious belief in “transgenderism” was introduced into the cultural bloodstream by academia and Hollywood, individual Americans, feeling the increasing peer pressure, quickly forsook their knowledge of basic human biology and adopted progressive gender theory wholesale.”
― Matt Walsh, Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians

“Meanwhile, feminists regularly insist that the absence of a uterus and a vagina excludes men from having an opinion about things like abortion. So a man can’t have ideas about women’s issues because he lacks the correct anatomy, but he can actually be a woman despite lacking the correct anatomy? How does that make any kind of sense?”
― Matt Walsh, The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender

“Non c'è dubbio (lo si vede dai risultati) che la televisione sia autoritaria e repressiva come mai nessun mezzo di informazione al mondo. Il giornale fascista e le scritte sui cascinali di slogans mussoliniani fanno ridere: come (con dolore) l'aratro rispetto al trattore. Il fascismo, voglio ripeterlo, non è stato sostanzialmente in grado nemmeno di scalfire l'anima del popolo italiano: il nuovo fascismo, attraverso i nuovi mezzi di comunicazione e di informazione (specie, appunto, la televisione), non solo l'ha scalfita ma l'ha lacerata, violata, bruttata per sempre.”
― Pier Paolo Pasolini, Scritti corsari

“If you won 600 million dollars in the lottery, would you go out the next day and break into cars to steal the change from the cup holders? That’s what sleeping around is like when you’ve already found a woman who will pledge her life and her entire being to you for the remainder of her existence.
You tell me that you are in an “open marriage.” I will probably be lambasted for “judging” you for it, but, sorry Professor, an “open marriage” makes about as much sense as a plane without wings or a boat that doesn’t float. Marriages, by definition, are supposed to be closed. Actually, I’m getting rather tired of people like you trying to hijack the institution, strip it of its beauty and purpose, and convert it into some shallow little thing that suits your vices.”
― Matt Walsh

“This is quite the scary world we're constructing. One where the disabled can be discarded and NBA stars can be gods. Come to think of it, that pretty well describes our culture right now. Thank you, liberalism.”
― Matt Walsh, The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender

“What is born will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.”
― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
― Simone de Beauvoir