Eudora Welty Quotes

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall. -Songs of Sapphique

Your debut record, in terms of lyrical content, can be about the last couple of years of your life obviously, but your first record into the world is also about everything else that you've ever experienced in your life until that moment.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

I like playing... I don't know. I think that's what was really exciting about playing Knives, too, from the beginning was that you get to kind of do both of that. She's almost like two different people, but that's what's cool about it, because I get to show her growth and that's the thing that's really cool about Knives, you get to really see her grow up from being meek and innocent and naïve at the beginning to this powerful girl who is going for what she really believes in and what she really wants.

Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

I found myself again and then found love.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? . . . I expect it will be sit and wait.

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Happiness was born a twin.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.