Community Quote by Luke Rhinehart Download Open image ““We got married: society's solution to loneliness, lust and laundry.”” — Luke Rhinehart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Loneliness Marriage Marriage humor
“So what happened when base desires and unworthy passions troubled the flesh of men and women inhibited from casual promiscuity, adultery, and divorce that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Everyone now knows that marriage is not the only route to fulfillment, but the media and the internet tell of more lonely hearts and… — Virginia Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Life had a way of seeping into the seams of a marriage and slowly prying them open,” — Victoria Helen Stone Copy Share Image
“Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done.” — Burt Reynolds Copy Share Image
“And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it is not marriage… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“Marriage breeds its own special brand of loneliness, and it’s far more cruel. You miss more, because you’ve known more.” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.” — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Along the growing struggle of accepting my sexuality, the growing struggle of dealing with loneliness became insurmountable.” — Charles Benedict Copy Share Image
Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share
“It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom -… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than… — luke rhinehart Copy Share Image
Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions,… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive. — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
“But we must come to realise that every word is perfect, including those we scratch out. As my pen moves across this page the whole world writes. All of human history combines at this mere moment now to produce in the flow of this hand a single dot: Who are you and I, dear friends, to contradict the whole past… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share
“Nature’s accidents are the universe’s way of throwing chance into a system which would die of too much orderliness. Hurricanes, droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions are all Mother Nature’s way of stirring up the pot to prevent stagnation and putrefaction. A world without them would be a world of death. Floods, fires, eruptions, earthquakes all destroy and renew, kill and create,… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was… — Umair Haque Copy Share
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at… — Donna Freitas Copy Share
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
