The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
Interpretation
As we age, we may find greater value in the mysteries of life than in rational explanations.
Lillian Gish’s quote reflects the wisdom that often comes with age, suggesting that as we grow older, we may become more inclined to embrace the unknown and the inexplicable aspects of life. This perspective highlights the limitations of rationality and encourages a deeper appreciation for the mysteries and wonders that cannot easily be understood, recognizing that these elements can hold significant meaning in our lives.
In practice
A public speaking event discussing the role of faith in understanding our lives as we age.
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
I never approved of talkies. Silent movies were well on their way to developing an entirely new art form. It was not just pantomine, but something wonderfully expressive.
The stage was our school, our home, our life.
I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
Mine alone is the country of my soul.
The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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