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Life Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
- I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety…
- The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand…
- Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
- There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
- Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle