#ife

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. ↗

— Simon Reynolds

#morrissey #music #nostalgia #past #pop

One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#bad #care #i #me #much

I do not dream anymore, nor do I sleep. My days are empty, my nights endless. My only thought is of her, this murderer. But despite what you say, she brings me life. ↗

— John Speed

#death

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#get #having #i #learned #life

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#despair #die #down #life #negative

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#because #christ #go #i #leads

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#enhance #every #i #i see #life

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#enhances #evil #good #life #whatever

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better. ↗

— Jerry Springer

#celebrities #else #every #life #making

I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way. ↗