Haushofer Y Quotes & Sayings

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture. — Margaret Visser

I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead. — Marlen Haushofer

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom. — Marlen Haushofer

Any colour - so long as it's black. — Henry Ford

But if time exists only in my head, and I'm the last human being, it will end with my death. The thought cheers me. I may be in a position to murder time. The big net will tear and fall, with its sad contents, into oblivion. I'm owed some gratitude, but no one after my death will know I murdered time. Really these thoughts are quite meaningless. Things happen, and, like millions of people before me, I look for meaning in them, because my vanity will not allow me to admit that the whole meaning of an event lies in the event itself. — Marlen Haushofer

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself. — David Guterson

That's what happens when it snows in Texas lady. It. Freaking. Melts. — Rick Riordan

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought. — Karl Jaspers

Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. — Robert Mitchum

Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions. — Karl Haushofer

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. — John Dos Passos

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin. — Marlen Haushofer

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph. — Annie Leibovitz

Maa" The only word that holds power to give you strength when you are in pain. — Akansh Malik

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath. — Laurence Yep

I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me. — Marlen Haushofer

The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations. — Marlen Haushofer

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting. — Steve Yzerman

We're all captives, in one way or another . . . — Jaye Frances

Maybe I'm afraid that if I could do otherwise I would gradually cease to be a human being, and would soon be creeping about, dirty and stinking, emitting incomprehensible noises. Not that I'm afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn't be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss. — Marlen Haushofer

Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else. — Marlen Haushofer

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. — Mary Wortley Montagu