Huchel Quotes & Sayings

Then came night
that was like falling water.
At times, for hours,
a bird spirit,
half buzzard, half swan,
just above the rushes
from which a snow-storm howls. — Peter Huchel

beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it. — Dan Simmons

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. — Kate Atkinson

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians. — Alfred North Whitehead

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance. — Martin Gardner

Truth be told, Raisa had no intention of marrying anyone any time soon. Her mother was young - she would rule for many years yet, so there was no need to rush into the confinement of marriage. — Cinda Williams Chima

There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their position or their authority. When I am present and in a nonreactive state, then I can become like snake and slide through their "intimidation net" back into the creative plane. When I am in a reactive state, I usually regret responding, because usually all that happens is that the intimidator feels righteously vindicated. — Tori Amos

The two times I have cut my hair shorter, I've ended up out of work - so short hair is not an option. — Marie Helvin

I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out. — Katherine Schwarzenegger

What goes out always returns; remember to be kind to yourself. — Janni Styles

Now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes — Ani DiFranco

When you live life at altitude and then trip and fall - which we all do every day - you have a long way to fall and you may kill yourself. But if you're standing on the ground, you can fall again and again and simply get up, dust yourself off, and take the next step. — Tami Simon

In fourteenth-century philosophy, the word patient simply meant "the object of an action, — Paul Kalanithi

It was, all in all, a grand example of interspecies lack of cooperation and the further illustration that might makes right. I stayed in the rest area, in my car, for another half an hour, until everything had settled down, and saw who emerged as the victor. The bees kept the water fountain. — Gary Paulsen

It is not prophecies that make plan to come to pass. — Sunday Adelaja

The point of all this, Hextall, is that there will always be unfair obstacles in life that make it easy to fall into a trap of self-pity. But each person has to decide for themselves if they will embrace or overcome those excuses. Happiness is something you must choose. Sometimes it is not always an easy choice. — Kelly Bowen