Brendan Gleeson Quotes

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

That's the power of fiction, that it can take the collective and make it personal.

One of the great values of the theater is a communal search for truth; I believe that sincerely.

The thing about music is that it gives voice and names to anguish and also addresses how to comfort it.

You will be hard pressed to read another book that understands you as well as 'Leaves of Grass' does. It was made for you in the way that the constellations were made for you. It understands and makes space for your doubts, your love, the guilt and passions of your life and waits for you.

I'm always amazed at how records can make you feel like somebody else understands you.

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

one gud thing abut music if hits u fell no pain :p <3

Feeling alone guides the mind.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.