Quiet Desperation

Often haunted by his past.

Often characterized by strong beliefs that seem detached from the norms of his world, and his drive to follow those beliefs are self-destructive. Often violent, but the misunderstood kind of violent.

And one of the many great things about Big Little Lies is that it allows these women to occupy this traditionally male character trope. Connell, Paula Fox, Catherine Lacey, etc.

But these are not women that are often given their own HBO series or feature films. More often on our screens, women are the ones waiting in the kitchen for their wayward husbands to come home, to change, to figure out their shit. Sometimes this seems like a good thing: But Madeline, Celeste, and Jane, could also be characterized as mad, bad, and dangerous to know—at least sometimes. In an early scene, Jane tries to explain her feelings of detachment to Madeline and Celeste: Like, if only I were here.

She has her own kind of desperation, and is perhaps, the quietest of the three, despite the fact that her story is the most terrifying, and the most compelling. This was a popular aphorism in his day, appearing in several collections of proverbs during his lifetime.

Its origin is unknown, but it had appeared in print before his birth. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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First attributed to Thoreau in A year of sunshine: Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. No known citation Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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No known citation to Thoreau's works. First found, uncredited, in the s in the variant "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it", p. Google Books Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Misquotation of a line from Walden cited above, with the addition of a spurious ending.

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For this and other misattributions, see: Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page Happiness is like a butterfly: But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder. The linkage to Henry David Thoreau is unsupported. Wikipedia has an article about: