#inspiratio

For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for much longer he could have lived in this soft, well upholstered hell, if this had not happened: the moment of complete hopelessness and despair, that most extreme moment, when he hang over the rushing waters and was ready to destroy himself. That he had felt this despair, this deep disgust, and that he had not succumbed to it, that the bird, the joyful source and voice in him was still alive after all, this was why he felt joy, this was why he laughed, this was why his face was smiling brightly under his hair which had turned gray. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#inspirational #profound-realizations #beauty

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe's "Berenice"

#inspirational-quotes #interesting-quotes #sorrow #beauty

That agony, that pain, that struggle, that rejection takes you to the place of grasping your dreams. ↗

— Euginia Herlihy

#dreams

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#time #dreams

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information. ↗

— E. Franklin Frazier

#education #in the past #information #inspiration #little

And hope is but a dream of those that wake. ↗