#longed

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#even #feels #heavier #heavy #hundred

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#anything #beautiful #because #belonged #else

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#carson #johnny #johnny carson #know #owned

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

#attention #mental #nothing #period #prolonged

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. ↗

— David Remnick

#almost #been #between #crisis #editor

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#belonged #i #life #simply #theater

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#found #longed #lost

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself. ↗

— Linda Evans

#beautiful #beautiful women #go #i #longed

Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#break #community #did #domestic #end

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#history #human #human history #page #prolonged