Hannah Quotes & Sayings

I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time. — Hannah

There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our century, it should have been this seemingly small and unimportant Jewish problem that had the dubious honor of setting the whole infernal machine in motion. — Hannah

Look at us talking blood and gore like we're on a date sharing our first sexual experience. — Hannah

The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable. — Hannah

I don't even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I'm the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me. — Hannah

I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they're just losers. — Hannah

I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation. — Hannah

man can not live on chocolate .... but women can — Hannah

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom — Hannah

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings. — Hannah

This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself. — Hannah

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form. — Hannah

I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer
ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top. — Hannah

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us. — Hannah

I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me. — Hannah

Am I seriously the only one of us who prides herself on being a truly authentic person? — Hannah

In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one's own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them. — Hannah

When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it — Hannah

The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community. — Hannah

Life is good, without it we'd all be dead. — Hannah

The worst stuff that you say sounds better than the best stuff that some other people say — Hannah

Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a sure sign of slavishness. Courage therefore became the political virtue par excellence. — Hannah

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts. — Hannah

Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other's company even for thinking ("freedom of the pen")=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment. — Hannah

No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour! — Hannah

Do you know that part on your resume where they ask if you have any special skills? Well, it's the thing where they ask you to list like, 'yoga, Spanish, water skiing, Photoshop.' I feel like I don't have any special skills. — Hannah

It's like, 'Sorry I passed you an STD but I really enjoy your quirky web presence.' — Hannah

I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me. — Hannah

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two. — Hannah

It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up — Hannah

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant. — Hannah

To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one's own arrival and will survive one's own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death. — Hannah

There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals. — Hannah

I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy. — Hannah