A heart is hard to dictate especially when longing to love and to be love

“Let thy not be hatred burn our emotions with manifestation. Veil our face in mask of façade and act in charade like performers do in stage, so that no one will hurt and in secret everyone will be comfort in deception.”

an irrelevant gray life is like an image that has no color on it

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.