J.G. BallardMaybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
About This Quote
Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? This is a very sad statement. If you are not an optimist, you will be less likely to make the best of your life.
Some Similar Quotes
- Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
- It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
- Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
- Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
- There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
More Quotes By J.G. Ballard
- In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
- Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
- Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
- All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with...
- First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal...