49 Quotes by Danny Castillones Sillada

The virtue of bigotry is ignorance; the intrinsic quality of ignorance is bigotry.

It takes courage and humility to accept and embrace one’s ignorance, that it knows too little or nothing at all.

Occasionally, I would visit the graveyard in my heart, knowing that some people that were buried there are still alive. I could not help wondering: How many people buried me, too, in the graveyard of their hearts?(Danny Castillones Sillada, Those Sweet and Painful Memories, Inusara Journal)

Perhaps the most humiliating condition in life is when you no longer feel that there’s still someone or something worth waiting for and that, worst of all, no one or nothing’s waiting there for you in the twilight of your existence. (Danny Castillones Sillada, On Losing Faith)

If only I could anesthetize my inner suffering, bleach the guilt of my conscience, and surgically remove the ugly scars of my soul, perchance, I’d look blameless and beautiful in front of the mirror even if no one’s watching. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, Here & Beyond)

The deeper the awakening of man is, the nearer he is towards the Truth in completing the task of his transitory existence. And when his time is up, it is, by intrinsic necessity, an inescapably irreversible condition that he should no longer wake up! (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Sensation of Not Being Dead)

The world is full of shit, inestimable horrible shit, and I have no intention of participating or drowning in that shit, so I transcend from it by creatively making my own shit meaningful, purposeful, and, as much as possible, sublimely beautiful.

The value of what’s part of us can’t be measured until it’s already lost.

Today, in our covideous society, your smile or mine in public is no longer palpable or, should I say, meaningful as it used to be. Conversely, the pandemic dramatically changes the natural landscape of our facial appearance in public and, as much as possible, conceals our smile behind the mask in such a way that only the virus can delightfully see and nestle on our cambered lips burrowing further and deeper into the pit of our gullible mouth—how sardonically magnificent that is!