“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life”

—  Orhan Pamuk , book Snow

Source: Snow

Last update Oct. 2, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life" by Orhan Pamuk?
Orhan Pamuk photo
Orhan Pamuk 55
Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literatu… 1952

Related quotes

Laisenia Qarase photo

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Théodore Guérin photo

“Come, if we have to die, let us die, but say nothing! … so true it is that misfortune binds hearts together.”

Théodore Guérin (1798–1856) Catholic saint and nun from France

First Journal of Travel (1840)

Sylvia Day photo
D.H. Lawrence photo
Ursula Goodenough photo
Assata Shakur photo
David Hume photo

“This deficiency in our ideas is not, indeed, perceived in common life, nor are we sensible, that in the most usual conjunctions of cause and effect we are as ignorant of the ultimate principle, which binds them together, as in the most unusual and extraordinary.”

Part 4, Section 7
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 1: Of the understanding
Context: This deficiency in our ideas is not, indeed, perceived in common life, nor are we sensible, that in the most usual conjunctions of cause and effect we are as ignorant of the ultimate principle, which binds them together, as in the most unusual and extraordinary. But this proceeds merely from an illusion of the imagination; and the question is, how far we ought to yield to these illusions. This question is very difficult, and reduces us to a very dangerous dilemma, whichever way we answer it. For if we assent to every trivial suggestion of the fancy; beside that these suggestions are often contrary to each other; they lead us into such errors, absurdities, and obscurities, that we must at last become asham'd of our credulity. Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers. Men of bright fancies may in this respect be compar'd to those angels, whom the scripture represents as covering their eyes with their wings. This has already appear'd in so many instances, that we may spare ourselves the trouble of enlarging upon it any farther.

“No matter the semantics, they are of a kind and it is legend and myth that binds us all together.”

Charles de Lint (1951) author

Goninan in Part One: The Hidden People, "Border Spirit" p. 336
The Little Country (1991)
Context: Legend and myth are what we use to describe what we don't comprehend. They are out attempts to make the impossible, possible — at least insofar as our spirits interact with the spirit of the world, or if that is too animistic for you, then let's use Jung's terminology and call it our racial subconscious. No matter the semantics, they are of a kind and it is legend and myth that binds us all together. … Through them, through their retellings, and through those version that are called religion while they are current, we are taught Truth and we attempt to understand Mystery.

Alex Salmond photo

Related topics