Human experience Quotes

"A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world." "Sooner or later in life, everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable" "Man is the storytelling animal." "Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack" "There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart " "Ennobling sorrow melts the heart to love" "We cannot selectively numb emotions; when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions" "Life is not a spectacle or feast; it is a predicament." "I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too" "I didn't have anything to offer anybody except my own confusion." "The wine of this fleeting world caused you and me to forget " "Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?" "Where one man hates and another loves, there is truth." "If we are to be entirely alive, it must be through feeling deeply." "There is only one type of story in the world-your story."