But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I…

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

— Adrienne Rich

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the…

— Jeanette Winterson

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

— Richard Greenberg

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

— Rosalind E. Krauss

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the…

— William Kentridge

So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in…

— Catherine Camus

Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves…

— Lauren Slater

Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray,…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a…

— Ray Kurzweil

How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by…

— Marjorie M. Liu

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

— Alain Badiou

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

— Shoshana Zuboff

Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the…

— Leah Hager Cohen

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

— Jeanette Winterson