Quotes about evening page 9
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: What I Believe
“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”
Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer
Source: Chicago: City on the Make
“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young──now you are even younger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Beyond Good and Evil
Source: Beyond Good and Evil
“One evening, I sat Beauty in my lap. — And I found her bitter. — And I cursed her.”
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet
Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. <br class="br">Et je l'ai injuriée. <br class="br"> Une Saison en Enfer http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Season.html (A Season in Hell) (1873)
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith
Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”
John Calvin book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”
Mrs Cheveley, Act I
Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
René Girard (1923–2015) French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
Source: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
“Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger”
Sara Evans (1971) American country singer and songwriter
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) German actor
Source: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 72-73
Context: At a performance everything works out on its own. I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul. Everything else is taken care of by the life one has to live without sparing oneself. You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price. I become so sensitive that I can't live under normal conditions. That's why the hours between performances are worst.
Louis Sachar (1954) American writer of children's books
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker
“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
“You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.”
Barry Lyga (1971) American writer
Source: I Hunt Killers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Variant: I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate
"A Commencement Address" (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110
Context: The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin: not even by a minority. Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets. Its proclivity for such things has to do with its innate insecurity, but this realization, again, is of small comfort when Evil triumphs.
American Acheivement interview (1996)
Source: The Joy Luck Club
Context: Reading for me was a refuge. I could escape from everything that was miserable in my life and I could be anyone I wanted to be in a story, through a character. It was almost sinful how much I liked it. That's how I felt about it. If my parents knew how much I loved it, I thought they would take it away from me. I think I was also blessed with a very wild imagination because I can remember, when I was at an age before I could read, that I could imagine things that weren't real and whatever my imagination saw is what I actually saw. Some people would say that was psychosis but I prefer to say it was the beginning of a writer's imagination. If I believed that insects had eyes and mouths and noses and could talk, that's what they did. If I thought I could see devils dancing out of the ground, that's what I saw. If I thought lightning had eyes and would follow me and strike me down, that's what would happen. And I think I needed an outlet for all that imagination, so I found it in books.
“Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Gegen die Langeweile kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
Sec. 48
The Antichrist (1888)
Source: The Anti-Christ
“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”
Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
Source: Selected Poems
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Anthony Bourdain book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Context: Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I'll accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine. (p. 70).
May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist
Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
Thomas à Kempis book The Imitation of Christ
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.
Source: The Imitation of Christ
Context: Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention — purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God,— purity apprehends and tastes Him.
“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Context: Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
“Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment.”
Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time
Source: Thief of Time
Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) German artist
In a letter to her aunt Mary Hill, from Worpswede, June 1899; as quoted in Paula Modersohn-Becker – The Letters and Journals, ed: Günther Busch & Lotten von Reinken; (transl, A. Wensinger & C. Hoey; Taplinger); Publishing Company, New York, 1983, p. 135
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