Our lives are awkward and ...

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
 Edward Bond

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

Quotes from the same author

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
 Edward Bond
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
 Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
 Edward Bond