Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

I damaged my health during 'Les Mis,' which I didn't want to mention in case it seemed like I was courting sympathy.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

Being in a relationship, I only appreciate when I come home from work how much I've given of myself at work or how depleted I am, and I sometimes worry that I've given all my best energy to my work, and all I can offer you is the emptied out shell.

'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over.

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

I got scars from every film I've done, every TV show.

I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.

I give a lot of myself every day. I never get rewards. That's why sometimes, it's tough.

With this job people want so much from you and of course I understand, but if you don't keep that back, then what have you got left? If you auction off parts of your life you are left with nothing but a bag of money and no soul.

There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

Within three or four months, the average girl will just get used up. It just takes your soul, you know? It just takes your soul.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living

There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

The drama takes a toll on you.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.