Quotes

Quotes that I find interesting

[quixoticquozes]

Closure never came. There was only forgetting. There was only the slow passage of time, and rooting for the fallibility of your own brain. Rooting for the day you’d wake up and the particulars would be gone, deleted to make way for something else.

Erin Somers, The Ten-Year Affair

[quixoticquozes]

We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.

Iris Murdoch

[quixoticquozes]

The desire to consume is a kind of lust. We long to have the world flow through us like air or food. We are thirsty and hungry for something that can only be carried inside bodies. But consumer goods merely bait this lust, they do not satisfy it. The consumer of commodities is invited to a meal without passion, a consumption that leads to neither satiation nor fire.

Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property

[quixoticquozes]

We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.

Andre Dubus II, Broken Vessels

[quixoticquozes]

But how then can you really care if anybody gets it, or gets what it means, or if it improves them? Improves them for what? For death? Why hurry them along?

-Frank O'Hara

[quixoticquozes]

Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?

-Epictetus

[quixoticquozes]

We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind - for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.

-Marcus Aurelius

[quixoticquozes]

If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters - don't wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.

Epictetus

[quixoticquozes]

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.

Horace

[errorschacha]

[quixoticquozes]

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Jim "Catfish" Hunter

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Adversity not only draws people together but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship, just as the cold winter forms ice-figures on the window panes which the warmth of the sun effaces.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.

John Steinbeck

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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

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The thing that is important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Diane Arbus

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald