« All Mostly Empty Quotes
·
Teju Cole's Page
Mostly Empty Quotes by Teju Cole
1 Mostly Empty quote by Teju Cole
More Quotes by Teju Cole
Teju Cole has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange.…
-
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out…
-
I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.
-
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own…
-
To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and…
-
I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having…
-
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a…
-
It is dangerous to live in a secure world.
See all 38 quotes by Teju Cole »
More Mostly Empty Quotes
Popular Mostly Empty quotes from across the collection:
-
Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind…
— John Green
-
We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities.…
— Teju Cole
-
The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division…
— Jeanette Winterson
See all Mostly Empty Quotes »
Browse Teju Cole Quotes by Category