Top 19 Quotes About Tortured Artists
#1. Life is like a war. There will always be people trying to shoot you down. But it's your choice whether you're going to surrender, fight back, or dodge the bullet.
Peyton
#2. I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#3. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#4. The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles
#5. The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.
Aristotle.
#6. My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.
Richard D. Kahlenberg
#7. I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!
Paul Rust
#8. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.
Shemp Howard
#9. I do not wish to believe and I cannot believe that evil is the normal state of humanity.
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
Lawrence Durrell
#11. The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.
John Fowles
#12. Gino refilled my glass. "What a night. Booze, broads, and a barroom brawl.
Michael Murphy
#13. Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.
Marian Keyes
#14. On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman to the great Masters champions but instead had to reach for the compendium of great golfing train wrecks.
Matt Dickinson
#15. You might want more time in your life to attempt the things you like to do, and not just perform the things you have to do.
Carew Papritz
#17. Indian believes they ain't but two sins ... bein a coward ... and turnin agin yer own kind.
Forrest Carter
#18. I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.
Daniel Coyle
#19. Do me the very great honor of becoming ... the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it ...
Barbara Elsborg
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