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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6ab8e2b | will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| ae5e6cd | Perhaps," said Nietzsche, "only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman." | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| d832674 | You wonder about a conversation with nothing concealed--its real name is hell, I believe. To disclose oneself to another is the prelude to betrayal, and betrayal makes one sick, does it not? | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 32203d9 | Whereas the truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes over flow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 967f54c | mytwn khwndn r rdh khrd wly nh fhmydn r | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 03ba1df | Some cannot loosen their own chains yet can nonetheless liberate their friends. --Nietzsche | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| ed8b238 | wHsht mrg hmhjyy st w chnn `Zmty drd khh bkhsh qblmlHZh z nrjy zndgy Srf nkhr an myshwd. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 03c84bc | When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| 443eb1e | What has been given is a new perspective on living life, and what has been taken away is the illusion of limitless life and the belief in a personal specialness exempting us from natural law. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| ebf981a | The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort. | life meaning | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| 1cd4d09 | Mind thinks in images but, to communicate with another, must transform image into thought and then thought into language. That march, from image to thought to language, is treacherous. Casualties occur: the rich, fleecy texture of image, its extraordinary plasticity and flexibility, its private nostalgic emotional hues - all are lost when image is crammed into language. | communication language | Irvin D. Yalom | |
| fdeaa14 | Existentialist literature provides a more satisfactory account of the persistence of feminine narcissism. Simone de Beauvoir makes use of the existentialist conception of 'situation' in order to account for the persistence of narcissism in the feminine personality. A woman's situation, i.e., those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as the instrument of her transcend.. | Sandra Lee Bartky | ||
| d2d9643 | When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| cc3d9f7 | when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior. But the scope of the verb to be must be understood; bad faith means giving it a substantive value, when in fact it has the sense of the Hegelian dynamic: to be is to have become, to have been made as one manifests oneself. Yes, women in general are today inferior to men; that is, their situation provides them with fe.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| d9a0877 | Legislateurs, pretres, philosophes, ecrivains, savants se sont acharnes a demontrer que la condition subordonnee de la femme etait voulue dans le ciel et profitable a la terre. | gender-inequality | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| a0b9602 | The little girl's sense of secrecy that developed at prepuberty only grows in importance. She closes herself up in fierce solitude: she refuses to reveal to those around her the hidden self that she considers to be her real self and that is in fact an imaginary character: she plays at being a dancer like Tolstoy's Natasha, or a saint like Marie Leneru, or simply the singular wonder that is herself. There is still an enormous difference betw.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| e3c0814 | It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| c77c35e | The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 6a4d2ec | L'ideal de la beaute feminine est variable; mais certaines exigences demeurent constantes; entre autres, puisque la femme est destinee a etre possedee, il faut que son corps offre les qualites inertes et passives d'un objet. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 8aaada7 | One is not born, but rather becomes a woman. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| e2e8658 | Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7216795 | Un amor autentico deberia de asumir la contingencia del otro, es decir, sus carencias, sus limites y su gratuidad originaria; asi no pretenderia ser una salvacion sino una relacion entre seres humanos. | amor feminismo mujeres | Simone de Beauvoir | |
| e63f95d | The comradeship that welded our lives together made a superfluous mockery of any other bond we might have forged for ourselves.What, for instance, was the point of living under the same roof when the whole world was our common property?Why fear to set great distances between us when we could never truly be parted?One single aim fired us, the urge to embrace all experience, and to bear witness concerning it ...That which bound us freed us an.. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| 7fa13cd | By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| ecdd226 | The people of former times [...] they're dead that's the only thing they have over the living but in their own day they were just as sickening. Picturesqueness: I don't fall for that not for one minute. Stinking filthy dirty washing cabbage-stalks what a pretentious fool you have to be to go into such ecstasies over that! And it's the same thing everywhere all the time whether they're stuffing themselves with chips paella or pizza it's the .. | Simone de Beauvoir | ||
| eb8da21 | I think it might fly around and around in there like a witch on a broomstick flies round the sky, and go right on hurting invisible parts of the person you don't even know you're hurting, because you can't see all the ways their insides are connected to the mean thing you did to their outside And from them on, maybe that hump of mean energy sits inside the hurt person like a coiled-up hose or a rattlesnake, just waiting in there. And someda.. | David James Duncan | ||
| bfd39f7 | I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present. | David James Duncan | ||
| d30a04b | The heart [is] an organ that I find, if you have faith and know how to surrender to it, unfolds and unfolds in a most wonderful an unscientific manner, till it becomes the vastest and most pristine wilderness in existence. | David James Duncan | ||
| c24d82f | I call hellfire a threat," Natasha said, " and 'love thy neighbor' a value. But I believe in hell, or something close to it. I think hell is what we get right here on earth when people trade their spiritual and political values in on spiritual and political threats." | David James Duncan | ||
| 8e5a153 | There are kinds of human problems which really do seem, as our tidy expressions would have it, to "come to a head" and "demand to be dealt with." But there are also problems, often just as serious, which come to nothing that we can recognize or openly deal with. Some long-lived, insidious problems simply slip us off to one side of ourselves. Some gently rob us of just enough energy or faith so that days which once took place on a horizontal.. | David James Duncan | ||
| c33c1fe | He's just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king | free make-believe wild wolf | Maurice Sendak | |
| 80930cc | Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight. | Peter Straub | ||
| 4a6b422 | The mind was a trap--it was a cage that slammed down over you. | Peter Straub | ||
| df72b0e | The day was a long bolt of gray cloth; endless. | Peter Straub | ||
| 7330e0c | Get a Job, she shouted silently to God. Get a real Job. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 1bedd6a | Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home. | stagnant-relationships struggles-in-relationships | Lorrie Moore | |
| ab87134 | She had expected a pistol to seem light and natural-a seamless extension of her angry feral self. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 766ed5f | On-yez, where are you from, dear?' asked a black-slacked, frosted-haired woman whose skin was papery and melanomic with suntan. 'Originally.' She eyed Agnes's outfit as if it might be what in fact it was: a couple of blue things purchased in a department store in Cedar Rapids. Where am I from?' Agnes said it softly. 'Iowa.' She had a tendency not to speak up. Where?' the woman scowled, bewildered. Iowa,' Agnes repeated loudly. The woman.. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 87bce8f | Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| f8253a1 | He calls you occasionally at the office to ask how you are. You doodle numbers and curlicues on the corners of Rolodex cards. Fiddle with your Phi Beta Kappa key. Stare out the window. You always, always, say: "Fine." | Lorrie Moore | ||
| e79decd | I watched my friend Eleanor give birth," she said. "Once you've seen a child born, you realize a baby's not much more than a reconstituted ham and cheese sandwich. Just a little anagram of you and what you've been eating for nine months." | babies baby benna birth humor | Lorrie Moore | |
| 245327b | I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building. | Lorrie Moore | ||
| 8643c44 | I can't imagine what other people think cold turkey is like. It is fucking awful. On the scale of things, it's better than having your leg blown off in the trenches. It's better than starving to death. But you don't want to go there. The whole body just sort of turns itself inside out and rejects itself for three days. You know in three days it's going to calm down. It's going to be the longest three days you've spent in your life, and you .. | cold-turkey heroin | Keith Richards | |
| 92f3c9e | The thing about being a songwriter is,even if you been fucked over, you can find consolation in writing about it, and pour it out. Everything has something to do with something; nothing is divorced. It becomes an experience,a feeling or a aconglomeration of experiences... | Keith Richards |