Trent

“The Great Wall of China resembles the concept of heartache in that neither can peel a banana.”
― Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

“It is language's lack of visualisability which confers such enviable freedom upon it. Seeing language as no more than an image or representation of reality is a way of restricting its liberty.”
― Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?

You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I can try to forgive myself, whether or not she forgives me, because I was a child, but some things you just live with because you cannot go backward.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction