All Edward Hoagland Quotes
- Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such… Afraid
- It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live. Better
- To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising a somewhat similar… Automobile
- There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows… Agitation
- Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. Arm
- Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. Compete
- If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy.… Alright
- Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of… Appreciated
- Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter… Air
- There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the… Believe
- The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some… Center
- Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play… Acute
- It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer… Begin
- There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… Absolutely
- City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish… Ahead
- True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. Birdsong
- A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.... Inspirational
- Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity. Activity
- No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache. Blown
- If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But… Alongside