11 Quotes

“Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.”
― Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.”
― Michael Grant Lies

“The problem with the 11:11 Phenomenon is getting anybody interested in it that hasn't experienced it themselves. Other phenomena, such as U.F.Os or crop circles, are able to be seen. We can debate them. But seeing and being guided by 11:11 is hard to convey to those uninitiated in its ways.”
― Harry Whitewolf, Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol

“The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“তুমি বসে আছো
দ্বিপ্রহরে, মাঠের ধারে, ঘাসফুল ছিঁড়ে
কেটে যায় অবসর বেলা,
তুমি গেছ চলে, কিছু স্মৃতি ভুলে,
যেমন শুকনো ফুল বইয়ের মাঝে রয়ে যায়,
আমি চেয়ে থাকি গগনের আরশিতে
যদি দেখতে পাই শেষ রজনীর গল্পগুলোকে,
তবে চোখে পরে, সেই অরব মধ্যাহ্ন
যেখানে তুমি বসে আছো, সোনালী রৌদ্রের ঝাঁকে
একগুচ্ছ বিষণ্নতা নিয়ে আমার সন্ধানে॥
অঙ্কুর মজুমদার”
― Ankur Mazumder, অঙ্কুরের প্রেমের কবিতা

“The headlong stream is termed violent
But the river bed hemming it in is
Termed violent by no one.

The storm that bends the birch trees
Is held to be violent
But how about the storm
That bends the backs of the roadworkers?

Bertolt Brecht, "On Violence”
― Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor