“There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Ще трябва да свикна да приемам себе си такъв, какъвто съм. Бедата е там, че не се познавам изцяло. През целия си живот съм изграждал личността си, както се изгражда здраво тяло според предписанията на „Сила и здраве“. Само че не съм изградил нищо отвътре, а само отвън, колкото да се браня от едно-друго.
Сега голяма част от тази щурава структура се разпада. Ще трябва да започна всичко отново и аз се вглеждам в себе си, за да разбера какво има там. Не зная дали ще успея. В крайна сметка сигурно ще събера части от някогашния Ал, макар някои от тях да липсват, и ще ги слепя някак.
Трябва да свикна със страха, да живея с него. Той е нещо вродено и няма никакъв смисъл да се бориш срещу него. Да не е страхът, никога не можем да бъдем преуспяващи животни. Човек няма защо да се срамува от страха. Подобно на играта и болката, той е нещо естествено, нещо необходимо. Трябва да свикна с него.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Things come apart much easier than they go together.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized; distilled into knowledge. Thinking, the processing of knowing to knowledge.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Оо-о, това ще е нещо знаменито! Да се отприщиш и да престанеш да се правиш на такъв-онакъв; да се отпушиш напълно, да ревеш, да виеш, да надаваш тарзански викове, да прескачаш зидове или да ги пробиваш, да плюеш на всеки, да пикаеш на всеки, който посмее да се доближи! Господи, какво по-хубаво от това! И защо още не съм го направил? Страдах достатъчно и ако реша, мога да го направя. Никой не може копче да ми каже. ”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Trzeba się pilnować, bo inaczej ani się człowiek obejrzy, a już zaczyna każdego żałować i w końcu nie ma komu w mordę dać”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Before you know it, if you're not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there's nobody left to hate.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Луди сме, понеже не можем да приемем, че нещата възникват без никаква причина и нямат никакво значение. Не можем да гледаме на живота просто като на писта с препятствия, които трябва да се преодолеят някак. Струва ми се, че нормалните, онези, които уж не са луди, точно това правят - гледат да минат някак препятствията. И така си живеят ден след ден, защото винаги идва нов ден, но когато дните им се свършат, те затварят очи и наричат себе си мъртви.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
“Może wariaci to tacy ludzie, którzy wszystko widzą tak, jak jest, tylko udało im się znaleźć sposób żeby z tym żyć.”
― William Wharton, quote from Birdy
William Wharton
Born place: in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States
Born date November 7, 1925
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“They will not struggle energetically against him, sometimes they will even applaud him; but they do not follow him. To his vehemence they secretly oppose their inertia, to his revolutionary tendencies their conservative interests, their homely tastes to his adventurous passions, their good sense to the flights of his genius, to his poetry their prose. With immense exertion he raises them for an instant, but they speedily escape from him and fall back, as it were, by their own weight. He strains himself to rouse the indifferent and distracted multitude and finds at last that he is reduced to impotence, not because he is conquered, but because he is alone.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, quote from De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome II
“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.”
― Amit Ray, quote from Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
“You want to know what I remember," he said quietly, his fingers fiddling with his cuffs as he rolled the sleeves up to his elbow, his eyes locked on the view before them.
She nodded.
He shoved his hands into his pockets and dipped his head just slightly, glancing at the floor before lifting it and staring out at the night sky.
"I remember everything.”
― Lauren Layne, quote from The Trouble with Love
“I head to the bathroom. I wash my face, brush my teeth, and try to put the evening behind me. Look, it’s not hard to turn down a drunk girl, because that’s just wrong. But it was hard, for some unknown fucking reason, to turn down her. Those things she was saying. Those wicked, dirty words falling from her red lips. They torched a path up my body. They stirred something inside me. Some wish. Some want.
That kiss on the street was one thing.
The session on her couch was entirely another.
But the cab was a whole new wrinkle. She just combusted, like a rocket of lust, firing off in every direction, jumping me, climbing me, grinding on me.
I wanted it all.
I wanted her.
I still do.”
― Lauren Blakely, quote from Big Rock
“Deacon was good, too-almost as good as me. His charisma draws people in, even if it's only a facade.”
― Suzanne Young, quote from The Remedy
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