D.W.Metz Quotes

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand.

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word.

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter.

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne čuje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.

poetry is the tombstone of experience, nothing i write is my own.~from "the damned

Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow.

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.

I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well.