Best 18 quotes of Maude Julien on MyQuotes

And back up they would go, not knowing where or when they would be able to land again.

Besides, before contemplating starting a new life, you need to make something of this one.

I can't stand it any longer. If only I could will myself dead.

I can't take it anymore, I can't put up with this suffering I neither understand nor know when it will end.

I couldn't care less about good marks. I want to learn.

If I make a mistake, she raps me over the fingers with her ruler. But she never hurts my spirit, she only hits me to correct my mistake.

I have an increasingly powerful need for books, which throw a glimmer of light into my darkness.

I'm not playing music to stay alive. I am alive. And I'm playing music for the pleasure of sharing the excitement with other musicians and other human beings.

I'm too heartbroken to shed tears.

I no longer have any fear of pain because I'm the one inflicting it and can decide when it stops.

Music comes to life inside me. It's no longer just a succession of notes.

Night after night I inflict abuse on myself, even drawing blood. It's strangely calming. I know the pain will stop whenever I want. I was the one who decided when it should start; I will be the one to decide when it stops. However much it hurts, I draw some comfort from the idea that I'm in control.

No one should ever be deprived of a horizon.

Playing chess with my father is torture. I have to sit very upright on the edge of my chair and respect the rules of impassivity while I consider my next move. I can feel myself dissolving under his stare. When I move a pawn he asks sarcastically, 'Have you really thought about what you're doing?' I panic and want to move the pawn back. He doesn't allow it: 'You've touched the piece, now you have to follow through. Think before you act. Think.

She preferred art so she chose to become a painter. I look at the painting and can't understand how she could 'choose'. We do things because we have to.

That is indeed the best way to dumb down the masses: make them do the same thing over and over; let them have their fireworks every Bastille Day and let them gorge themselves every New Year's Eve. When the body repeats the same action, the mind adopts it and keeps the repetition going day and night, stopping all thought processes.

The world was not ready for their wisdom. Yet they achieved great things in the invisible universe and their impact would be understood later, in the fullness of time.

Together we're strong and beautiful. If only for fleeting moments of love, everything else is worth putting up with.