Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Pain Quotes, Expression Quotes

Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

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The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.

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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

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Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

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The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy.

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I was drawn into acting due to the fact that I could express myself better. I could use my voice - my entire body - not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

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The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

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Trust the divine power, and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of divine nature.

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