Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
StingRead
It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the feeling of being overlooked or unsupported despite there being ample protection available.
In this quote, Sting expresses a sense of personal vulnerability and disappointment within relationships or circumstances where one would assume there is sufficient safety or support. The 'big enough umbrella' symbolizes the potential for protection or care that exists, yet he feels he is the one who suffers or is let down, emphasizing how, despite apparent security, one can still feel isolated or unprotected.
In practice
In a discussion about the feeling of being unsupported in friendships, this quote can serve as a poignant reflection.
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.
It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
There's no religion but sex and music.
I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference.
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
People who have no secrets from each other never want for a subject of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back, neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of their heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.
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