Condemned Quotes

484 Condemned quotes by 383 unique authors

But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you… — Roland Barthes
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the… — Italo Calvino
They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink… — Hermann Hesse
[M]an is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, in other respect is free; because, once thrown into the world, he… — Jean-Paul Sartre
How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next?… — Paulo Coelho
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It… — Alice Hoffman
The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled… — Harmony Korine
My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving. — Dave Eggers
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart… — Roland Barthes
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and… — Amos Oz
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions …… — Jean-Paul Sartre
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead.… — Albert Camus
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive… — Primo Levi
We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will… — Mario Puzo
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had refused to subject… — Melissa de la Cruz
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… — Sarah Vowell
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that? — Arina Tanemura
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,… — Cormac McCarthy
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We… — June Jordan

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