Johann Seume Quotes & Sayings

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. — Susan Sontag

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though. — Nayvadius Cash

I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.' — Jenny Lewis

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it. — Gary Larson

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. — Johann G. Seume

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves
and burn your fingers once again. — Richard K. Morgan

All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times. — Johann Gottfried Seume

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words. — Douglas Brinkley

Music is the key to the female heart. — Johann G. Seume

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have. — Paulo Coelho

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. — Johann G. Seume

The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after him, pressing more closely against him. Shrinking, almost shivering. He still managed to hold himself together. It was a torment, this hand that touched him and violated his instinct. He could not forget in a day all the evil that had been wrought him at the hands of men. — Jack London

People should always have something which they prefer to life. — Johann G. Seume

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. — Johann G. Seume

The power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is. As such, I've never bought into the idea that the writer requires any special ritual in order to write. If need be, I could write almost anywhere, as easily in an ashram as in a crowded cafe, or so I've always insisted when asked whether I write with a pen or a computer, at morning or night, alone or surrounded, in a saddle like Goethe, standing like Hemingway, lying down like Twain, and so on, as if there were a secret to it all that might spring the lock of the safe housing the novel, fully formed and ready for publication, apparently suspended in each of us. — Nicole Krauss

Come and discover a love you don't have to work for. — E'yen A. Gardner

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow. — Johann Gottfried Seume

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time. — Joe Hill