Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now...that source of eternal energy is here, in you, now.
Joseph CampbellIf you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.
Joseph CampbellFor if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.
Joseph CampbellModern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.
Joseph Campbell