Forms Quotes

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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity. — Ralph Ellison
If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from… — Jonas Salk
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her? — Ernest Hemingway
A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.â€… — Wendell Berry
No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon… — Thomas Ligotti
You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more… — Italo Calvino
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… — Alain de Botton
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist. — Vladimir Nabokov
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness;… — Arthur Rimbaud
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but… — Jon Krakauer
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us — Loren Eiseley
Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting… — Gary L. Francione
A path is something you create as you walk it. The ground you've trodden hardens, and that's what forms your path. You're the only one… — Katsura Hoshino
All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally… — Timothy Keller
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle… — George Orwell
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and… — Charles Darwin
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me. — Charlaine Harris
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished… — Rumi
Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative… — Lawrence Anthony

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