Ditlevsen Quotes & Sayings

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. — Albert Einstein

The "male gaze," as a shaper of my life's choices, is largely incidental. Gender — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely. — Tove Ditlevsen

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. — Tove Ditlevsen

I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences. — Dan Scanlon

Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own. — Tove Ditlevsen

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it. — Campbell Scott

Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it? — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs - and her violently checkered career - attest. — Robert Gottlieb

In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad. — Walter Darby Bannard

Down in the bottom of my childhood my father stands laughing. — Tove Ditlevsen

My childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn't look like it would last until I was grown up. — Tove Ditlevsen

[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign of love. Everything I do, I do to please her, to make her smile, to ward off her fury. This work is extremely exhausting ... — Tove Ditlevsen

I fear / the place I have / in the memory of others. / They remind me of things / I myself have forgot. — Tove Ditlevsen

The launch of Nautilus, the world's first atomic submarine marked a transition in naval warfare-a transition as sudden as that associated with the Monitor. — Waldemar Kaempffert

I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky