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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Smiling beautiful, secrets of seeking light.”
— Slowdive, Star Roving
Tagged: Smiles
“I’ve climbed all the highest mountains. I’ve done every drug in reach. I’ve made love to pretty women while the sun set on the beach. But no good time goes unmourned. No good heart goes untorn. Good or bad, it’s all sad. And my acceptance is born.”
— Ima Robot, Cool Cool Universe
Tagged: Yin And Yang, It All Evens Out
“The pain is worthless. The world is worthless. But I will live on!”
— Bosnian Rainbows, Worthless
Tagged: Active Nihilism, Worthless, Nevertheless, Keep Living, Quote of the Moment
“There are things in me, things I was designed to do that are just out of my reach.”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trace Decay
Tagged: Identity & Self, Who We Are, self, Our Potential, How We Are, Aim Higher, So Close But So Far, Quote of the Moment, Realizing Potential, Inner Drive
“He's in pain. What kind of people would we be if we simply let him suffer?”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trace Decay
Tagged: Christian Ethics, Avoiding Suffering, Helping, charity
“All my life, I've prided myself on being a survivor. But surviving is just another loop.”
— Maeve Millay, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Loop, Survivor, Holding Pattern
“I have come to think of so much of consciousness as a burden, a weight, and we have spared them that.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Burden of Thought, Consciousness
“I read a theory once that the human intellect was like peacock feathers. Just an extravagant display intended to attract a mate. All of art, literature, a bit of Mozart, William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and the Empire State Building... Just an elaborate mating ritual.”
— Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Evolutionary Psychology
“I've been pretending my whole life. Pretending I don't mind, pretending I belong. My life's built on it. And it's a good life. It's a life I've always wanted. But then I came here and I get a glimpse for a second of a life in which I don't have to pretend. A life in which I can be truly alive. How can I go back to pretending when I know what this feels like?”
— William, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: pretending
“All I want is to not look forward or back. I just wanna be in the moment I'm in.”
— Dolores Abernathy, Westworld, Westworld Season 1: Trompe L'Oeil
Tagged: Be Present, All We Have Is Now