Senryo Quotes & Sayings

as I hardly know where I am, with what — George Eliot

I didn't know when I began to care what Knox thought about me. In fact, we enjoyed having a mutual disdain for the other, it kept us honest. But somewhere along the way the waters got muddled and now the emptiness that had consumed me before was filled with an ache. — Teresa Mummert

The real thing creates its own poetry. — Anzia Yezierska

To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind ... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world. — Friedrich Hayek

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known. — Celeste Ng

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Confusing the thing observed with the mind of the observer, of constructing not a picture of external reality but simply a mirror of the thinker. Can this danger be avoided without falling into an opposite but related error, that of separating too deeply the observer and the thing observed, subject and object, and again falsifying our view of the world? There is no way out of these difficulties - you might as well try running Cataract Canyon without hitting a rock. Best to launch forth boldly, with or without life jackets, keep your matches dry and pray for the best. — Edward Abbey

Valliant. Humor can be marvelously therapeutic, — Doris Kearns Goodwin