black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.

Alan Ball

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.
ALAN BALL

Archetype People Powerful Psyche Timeless Vampire
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don’t want to watch them on TV.
ALAN BALL

Boring Happy Life Relationship Television Watch
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
ALAN BALL

Best Everything Going Really Strive Succesful
That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.
ALAN BALL

Afraid Benevolent Entire Force Incredibly Realize Reason Thing
I’m not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.
ALAN BALL

Believer Luck Need
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire.
ALAN BALL

Compare Desir Expectation Life Miraculous Reality Suffering Wondrous
It’s easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group.
ALAN BALL

Easy Fear Group Look Metaphor Misunderstood Vampire
In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don’t really get freaked out.
ALAN BALL

Collective Legend Life Manifestation Myth Own Supernatural Thing Unconscious
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
ALAN BALL

Close Come Incredible Love Nourish Probably Religion Reveal Storytelling
We don’t have any real sense of community anymore.
ALAN BALL

Anymore Community Real Sense
Makes you wonder what else you can do that you’ve forgotten about.
ALAN BALL

Else Make Wonder
Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
ALAN BALL

Beauty Country Develop Exist Eye Float Garbage Pece Place Strange Wind
I felt pride, wonderful pride, when I was captain. It was an honour to take over from Labby. Anybody who has ever captained a big club, which Everton are, will tell you it’s a great honour.
ALAN BALL

Captain Over Person Pride Take Wonderful
I’m from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region.
ALAN BALL

Fondness Geographical Mpossible Personally Region
That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering.
ALAN BALL

Actual Create Distance Fully Reality Somehow Suffer Taken
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is going to cave in.
ALAN BALL

Cave Feel Going Heart Like Much Beauty Sometimes

I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alan Ball Quotes