Miscellaneous quotes
973 quotes from 439 people
“Old” and “new” are the perennial poles of all feeling and sense of orientation in the world.
Susan Sontag1933–2004Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Madman (1918), FacesI stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it.
Thomas Mann1875–1955Tonio Kröger (1902), Ch. 9, as translated by Bayard Quincy MorganLight breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides
Dylan Thomas1914–1953“Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines”, st. 1 (1934), st. 1The world’s not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
Norman Mailer1923–2007TIME interview (1991)
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Florence Nightingale1820–1910Cassandra (1860)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020Ian Millhisser (October 8, 2015): Justice Ginsburg’s Warning To A Dysfunctional Nation. In: ThinkPrgoress
Martin Amis1949–2023“Gore Vidal” (1977)
Walt Disney1901–1966The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)
William Howard Taft1857–1930Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (Columbia University Press, 1916), P. 61.
John Henry Newman1801–1890An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), Chapter 1, Section 1, p. 39
John Updike1932–2009Bech, A Book (1970)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox1850–1919“Will,” included in Maurine: And Other Poems, p. 145 (1882)
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000Approaches to Politics (1970)