Erasure Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
— James Madison
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Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future
— Daniel Libeskind
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A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who…
— Gerhard
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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
— Assia Djebar
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The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political…
— Julie Mehretu
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It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.
— William Styron
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I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I…
— Kathleen Hanna
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I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping…
— Tim O'Brien
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Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?
— Lauren Kate
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
— George Orwell
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted…
— Natasha Trethewey
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Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
Who Wrote These Erasure Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Erasure Quotes as follows: