Quotes by Beck

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”

“I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.”

“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it...”

“She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless sh...”

“Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”

“Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. As I have already said, religious fundamentalism was on the rise, but that is not the type of superstition I am refer...”

“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”

“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now, so that t...”

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those tra...”

“Courage and fear were one thing too.”

“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”

“It's more that I want to leap in and say certain things and do certain things, but I always seem to hold myself back. I think a big part of me is afraid.”

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

“That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.”

“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”

“Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. W...”

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”

“The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.”

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”