Derrida Love Quotes & Sayings

I cannot respond to the call, the request, the obligation, or even the love of another, without sacrificing the other other, the other others — Jacques Derrida

The company I've been keeping doesn't seem to satisfy me anymore, he whispers in my ear. — Katy Evans

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. — Arthur Lacey

If were a shower
I could saturate your hair
Work my way over your lips
Across your shoulders
Around your waist
Through your knees
To the tips of your toes
And back again
Warm wet salty
Sweet — Nikki Giovanni

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed. — Mahatma Gandhi

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them. — Walter Lang

My heart was broken when I realized my daughter had a problem. I pray every day for her. — Columba Bush

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you'll see in your arms is yourself. — Andre Dubus

Pride will keep us from teachability and will keep us from getting where we want to go. Pride is a major hindrance to everything good in your life because, as we are about to see, pride breeds presumption, and presumption kills teachability. — Matt Keller

Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth. — Tom Clancy

She was lost.
Stumbling around the uneven floors and precarious book towers falling against each other for support, Alice realised she would have to do the unthinkable and talk loudly in a bookshop.
Maybe even shout.
Where were the staff?
Where were all the people who had ever read or owned these volumes? Where were the writers who created them? She walked on carefully through this purgatory of print, assuming the stoic reserve of a war widow seeking a lost husband among the silent names blurring past. — Josh Redman

I love language as I love life itself! — Jacques Derrida

Forgiveness, I finally decide, is not the death of amnesia, nor is it a form of madness, as Derrida claims. For the one who forgives, it is simply a death, a dying down in the heart, the position of the already dead. It is in the end the living through, the understanding that this has happened, is happening, happens. Period. It is a feeling of nothingness that cannot be communicated to another, an absence, a bottomless vacancy held by the living, beyond all that is hatred or love. — Claudia Rankine

How can I say 'I love you', if I know the love is you .. the word 'love' either as a verb or a noun would be destroyed in front of you — Jacques Derrida

There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Buddy, you're the one who was right!" Da Shi laughed, shaking his head. "I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved! — Liu Cixin

And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies. — Thomas King

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Fear must be conquered with faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the things that people aren't aware of is how much progress is being made in eradicating poverty and providing a healthier life and longevity for people around the world. — Kathy Calvin