Lars Gustafsson Quotes

#1. Man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

Samuel Florman

#2. There's a belief that whatever it is I'm looking for is out there, but I have a really difficult time finding it. Search algorithms alone are falling short in being able to provide real context around information.

Chris Shipley

#3. I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

Tom Bissell

#4. He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love.

Lars Gustafsson

#5. The usual heresy consists in denying the existence of a god who has created us. It is a much more interesting heresy to imagine that possibly a god has created us and then to say that there isn't the least reason for us to be impressed by that fact. And certainly not to be thankful for it.

Lars Gustafsson

#6. Disgust at the torments that shackle us, the chains of heavy life.

Elena Ferrante

#7. In short, they're a bit like a referee at a sporting event: Do a good job and nobody notices; make a mistake and the finger pointing begins.

Andrew Longman

#8. This white hot pain, naturally, is basically nothing but a precise measure of the forces which hold this body together. It is a precise measure of the force which has made my existence possible. Death and life are actually MONSTROUS things.

Lars Gustafsson

#9. Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled; I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Jane McGonigal

#11. Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

Isaac Stern

#12. If we never experienced the the valuable lessons from failure, then we would never truly appreciate the pure joy of our success.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#13. The bravest thing that men do is love women.

Mort Sahl

#14. People laugh as I pass. They're judging me and their judgment is spot on. I don't belong here. I never have.

Katie McGarry

#15. Film is a very intimate medium.

David Morse

#16. Thoughtcrime, they called it.

George Orwell

#17. You can break the walls of limitations with the power of your dreams and imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Deep within, every human being hoards a pitch-black riddle. The darkness of the iris is nothing other than the starless night, the darkness deep in the eye is nothing other than the darkness of the universe.

Lars Gustafsson

#19. Mr. Snagsby, as a timid man, is accustomed to cough with a variety of expressions, and so to save words.

Charles Dickens