Uprootedness Quotes & Sayings

If you are not fully, totally, and truly committed to creating wealth, chances are you won't. — T. Harv Eker

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them. — Richard Diebenkorn

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution. — Malcolm Gladwell

They're pretty subtle. Only a few dozen of them. I can see how you might not have noticed. — Lauren Oliver

In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts carry it into a singular space and it is this that causes the feelings of loneliness; or it is this that collides the feeling with the experience so that what is left is the solitude called loneliness. — Claudia Rankine

All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness. — Reinaldo Arenas

I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed. — John Irving

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots. — Christopher Lasch