Tololy's Box

On Disillusion

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

- Stanley Baldwin

That is entirely and painfully true. Perhaps I’ll write more about this later, when I am in a lighter mood. But for now I think I could not have expressed this idea better than that. It is cruelly ironic how life presents us with so many illusions of perfection, virtue, or wisdom, only for us to touch upon their true nature and discover that they are, as everything else, deeply flawed. Broken mirrors glued together to give a false impression of one beautiful reflection.

Mirrors

Mirroring my sentiments:

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.

- Rebecca West

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

- Voltaire

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

- Albert Einstein

A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

- Helen Keller

Lovetime

This is my heart-shaped clock. I bought it a long time ago, and discovered it recently still unused and in its package. It makes a loud ticking sound which I love, but I don’t love ‘time’ itself. Since the clock is heart-shaped, you get the irony. Nevertheless, it goes really well with some quotes on love and time, and my mood today.

I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.
We laugh and we touch.
I promise you love. Time will not take that away.

- Anne Sexton

From Visual Compen…

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

- Mary Parrish

Quoting Ziad Rahbani On Details

Quoting Charles Baudelaire on Fashion

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

- Charles Baudelaire

On life

“It is never perfect and always a chase”

- Tololy

Quoting Jean Kerr on Adults

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

- Jean Kerr

Quoting Oscar Wilde on Fashion

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

- Oscar Wilde

Quoting Ambrose Bierce on the Brain

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

- Ambrose Bierce

Quoting Cesar Chavez on cruelty

Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves.

- Cesar Chavez