#persona

The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth. In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive. She would like some one to speak to her, And is almost afraid that I will commit that indiscretion. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#personae #poem #poetry #boredom

It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely ↗

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

#dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-amnesia #dissociative-identity-disorder #fugue

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up ↗

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

#amnesia #dissociation #dissociative-amnesia #dissociative-identity-disorder #fugue

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#pain #personal-development #personal-growth #suffering #humility

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#lurker #mind #personality #psychological #sanity

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly. ↗

— Willie Aames

#been #family #family life #gave #honestly

I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud. ↗

— Adele

#big #i #i am #into #loud

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bring #center #did #done #established

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true. ↗

— Alan Alda

#actor #artist #otherwise #personal #ring

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#appetite #components #desire #does #ideal