I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up. . . They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones who won't drink too much, give up, get divorced, become mentally ill. The part of oneself that's fighting against decay and depression is transferred to guarding them from decay and depression. In the meantime one decays and gets depressed.
It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.
Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.
It is true that building a green economy will not be good for everyone's jobs. Notably, people working in the fossil fuel industry will face major job losses. The communities in which these jobs are concentrated will also face significant losses. But the solution here is straightforward: Just Transition policies for the workers, families and communities who will be hurt as the coal, oil and natural gas industries necessarily contract to zero over roughly the next 30 years.
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.