Intimations Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely,…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or…
— William H. Gass
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For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man,…
— Eleanor Clark
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
— Cynthia Ozick
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And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it…
— Michael Frayn
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are…
— Maxwell Maltz
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I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we…
— Thomas Raymond Kelly
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To understand oneself requires patience, tolerant awareness; the self is a book of many volumes which you cannot read in a day, but when once…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
— Charles Kuralt
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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur:…
— James Joyce
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Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.
— Karen Armstrong
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My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one…
— Edward Abbey
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The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London…
— Glen Duncan
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We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
— Ray Kurzweil
Who Wrote These Intimations Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Intimations Quotes as follows: