Darryl Marsden

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James

“However beautiful a song may be,
it is just a tune to those
who do not understand its meaning.”
― Milarepa, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

“There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man...”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

“When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil