Met Quotes - page 69
Eldorado Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old This knight so bold And o'er his heart a shadow Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow 'Shadow,' said he, 'Where can it be This land of Eldorado' 'Over the mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,' The shade replied 'If you seek for Eldorado'
Edgar Allan Poe
"When I experienced what was going on first hand, I just got sucked into the whole thing. Thank God I did. I met some amazing people and, hopefully, I've changed the lives of a lot of children. Just as important, I think it's been an incredible growing and learning experience for me." (About her work in Malawi).
Madonna (entertainer)
Not a single thing do I remember from the first trip but this: the sense of the place, the savor of the genie-soul of the place which every place has or else is not a place...there it is as big as life, the genie-soul of the place which, wherever you go, you must meet and master first thing or be met and mastered. (4.3).
Walker Percy
He was pretty. His eyes were kind and young. One had to wonder whether he was fourteen years old, or a thousand, being so smooth and untouched. A little boy peered out of the man's face. He was funny... I was bewildered... a man, responsible for the life and death of thousands, and yet there was no trace on him? One could be frightened of less, and yet so harmlessly innocent? Yes, innocent was the word... I knew I would remember this meeting the rest of my life, because I had never before met an emptyness like this.
Ingeborg Refling Hagen
In our post-modern, how ever we call them, societies we are obliged to enjoy.
Enjoyment becomes a kind or a weird perverted duty.
The paradox of Coke is that you are thirsty - you drink it but, as everyone knows the more you drink it the more thirsty you get.
A desire is never simply the desire for certain thing.
It's always also a desire for desire itself.
A desire to continue to desire.
Perhaps the ultimate horror of a desire is to be fully filled-in, met - so that I desire no longer.
The ultimate melancholic experience is the experience of a loss of desire itself.
It's not that in some return to a previous era of natural consummation where we got rid of this excess and were only consuming for actual needs like you were thirsty,
you drank water, and so on.
We cannot return to that.
The excess is with us forever.
So, let's have a drink of Coke.
Slavoj Žižek
