#psyche

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#psyche #food

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat. ↗

— Nick Park

#australian #films #like #offbeat #psyche

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#delights #especially #everyone #just #me

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier. ↗

— Toni Collette

#american television #been #does #easier #familiar

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#holds #holiday #i #like #psyche

I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#business #cause #crazy #else #greater

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#floating #great #ocean #our #psyche

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#asking #believe #creative #divine #essence

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche. ↗

— Dexter Gordon

#ego #good #little #nice #psyche

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#being #creepy #early #i #institution