Bela Bartok Quotes

“I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.”

“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,’ whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.”

“By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.”

“Adopting the language of a pretense only serves to ease participation in it.”

“I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.”

“We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.”

“We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.”

“Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel says we are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Who am I, then, if my memory is impaired?”

“We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.”

“Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.”