Magdalene Proksch > Magdalene's Quotes

“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God
that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go
through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared
to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I
know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.”
― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

“You can’t run from the way you feel.” ”
― M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

“Remmich’s subconscious mind is controlled by us. He will get what we want.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
― Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nietzsche, with his grotesque exaggeration, goes much further. The strong men, the masters, regain the pure conscience of a beast of prey; monsters filled with joy, they can return from a fearful succession of murder, arson, rape and torture with the same joy in their hearts, the same contentment in their souls as if they had indulged in some student’s rag… When a man is capable of commanding, when he is by nature a “Master,” when he is violent in act and gesture, of what importance are treaties to him?… To judge morality properly, it must be replaced by two concepts borrowed from zoology: the taming of a beast and the breeding of a specific species.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
― Charles Baudelaire