Abschied Nehmen Quotes & Sayings

Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other. — Rollo May

The media's job is to question a premise. — Joey Skaggs

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country. — Alexis De Tocqueville

As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage. — Vladimir Nabokov

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain — Anton Szandor LaVey

Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed. — R.C. Lewis

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face. — Maureen O'Hara

Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP. — Nandan Nilekani

I wasn't really living anywhere ... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places. — Bob Livingston

In New York, everything reminded me of my mother - every taxi, every street corner, every cloud that passed over the sun - but out in this hot mineral emptiness, it was as if she had never existed; I could not even imagine her spirit looking down on me. All trace of her seemed burned away in the thin desert air. — Donna Tartt

Orma had given me a timepiece that emitted blasphemy-inducing chirps at whatever early hour I specified. — Rachel Hartman

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard

Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country. — June Jordan

out vile jelly! where is thy lustre now — William Shakespeare