Tadeusz Rozewicz Quotes & Sayings

We all change when you think about it we're all different people all through or lives and that's okay that's good you've gotta keep moving so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. — The Doctor

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching. — Robert Benchley

A Touch of Crimson will rock readers with a stunning new world, a hot-blooded hero, and a strong, kick-ass heroine. This is Sylvia Day at the top of her game! — Larissa Ione

They mutilate they torment each other
with silences with words
as if they had another
life to live
they do so
as if they had forgotten
that their bodies
are inclined to death
that the insides of men
easily break down
ruthless with each other
they are weaker
than plants and animals
they can be killed by a word
by a smile by a look — Tadeusz Rozewicz

If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I. — Jane Swisshelm

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body
we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism! — Max Frisch

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers. — Samantha Bond

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking. — Joshua Harris

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? — Lou Reed

I invite you to not only love each other more but love each other better. — Bonnie D. Parkin

My gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin — Tadeusz Rozewicz

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. — Jayson Williams

Whatever was going on with Rook and Coll officially didn't matter anymore. They'd just have to rot in prison by themselves. He'd join them next time. — Erin Kellison

Tell me about
your Italian journey
I am not ashamed
I wept in that country
beauty touched me
I was a child once more
in the womb of that country
I wept
I am not ashamed
I have tried to return to paradise — Tadeusz Rozewicz

It's like at night, when it's raining and there's cars and headlights moving through the darkness, through the window. Everything's shiny and wet and looks so new. Undamaged, you know? Alive. Everything looks alive. And just for a moment, the whole world makes sense, it all fits together. You know it. You see it so clearly. And then it's gone. — Greg F. Gifune

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! — Nadia Boulanger

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. — Tennessee Williams

So they put them to flight by Allah's permission. And Dawood slew Jalut, and Allah gave him kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of what He pleased. And were it not for Allah's repelling some men with others, the earth would certainly be in a state of disorder; but Allah is Gracious to the creatures. — Anonymous