Even better if you can provide your own understanding of its meaning.
Mine would be :
“Nothing kills a man as much as being forced to represent a country” (and err considering the context, I must stress it has nothing to do with the current US shitshow), by a WW1 soldier, illustrator and writer named Jacques Vaché.
For me it just means being forced into representing a group (national, of course, but maybe also social, racial, sexual, professional, any kind of group) or defining one’s identity only by reference to a group is to be avoided at all costs.
Note : Its not the same, imho, as engaging in a collective struggle or defense against a common oppression.
How about you?
I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned.
Richard Feynman
“Nobody will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself”
Apply this to pushing back on contracts, double checking what you’re asked to do, and putting yourself first, and you’ll get a lot more respect in my experience. If you primarily put others first, your self will feel neglected. It doesn’t mean you should not care for others, but that your highest priority should be yourself, and then others.
Never tie your identity to something that can be taken away. Re: job title, salary, perceived status. Your self perceived identity should have a much more stable foundation.
“Trust no one - not even yourself”
My dad told me this while going through a divorce. He was also going through a criminal trial due to his deviance.
Its one thing that stuck with me and I wish it didn’t.
Another one is from Lenin: " ‘There Are Decades Where Nothing Happens’ and ‘Weeks Where Decades Happen’ "
"Who I am is where I stand.
Where I stand is where I fall."
-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who
I have a lot of darkness in my head due to my upbringing. I’ll never get it out. That doesn’t stop me from being a good man, because who you are and what you’ll be remembered as isn’t your internal struggle, its what you chose to stand for in practice.
Props to you for actually attributing the quote to the writer and not the character. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people take profound sounding quotes and attribute it to a fictional character that never existed, never had real thoughts or opinions of their own
Thank you! I try to, even though at the end of the day the best you can do is the show runner that signed off on it, as you’ll never really know who invented it in the writer’s room.
“You know, sweetheart, if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: nobody knows what’s gonna happen at the end of the line, so you might as well enjoy the trip.” Manny Calavera
You don’t need to do everything every day. Some days, surviving is enough.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
“republicans are pussies” - me. thanks
It’s not a party if it happens every night
It’s all so tiresome - Lao Yang in the 2011 documentary Empire of Dust
Life’s tough for everyone
-Grandpa
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
~ Camus
The pleasure of being understood is underrated
- Simon Baker portraying Patrick Jane in The Mentalist
Oof. I felt that.
“be someones angel”
quote from this little video that really stuck with me, as silly as it might sound
I suppose it’s less about the quote origin and more about what we make it to mean :)
