One S Quotes

384 One S quotes by 316 unique authors

One forgets so quickly one’s own youth… — Graham Greene
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. — George Orwell
One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence. — Robertson Davies
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One… — Haruki Murakami
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss… — Soren Kierkegaard
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries. — Carl Jung
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous… — James A. Baldwin
The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the… — Herbert Marcuse
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so… — Dean Koontz
An event may be small and insignificant in its origin , and yet, when drawn close to one’s eye, it may open in its center… — Bruno Schulz
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle… — Joseph Conrad
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An… — James A. Baldwin
So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit… — Daphne du Maurier
to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from… — Paulo Coelho
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And… — Etty Hillesum
What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of… — Robert Musil
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a… — Viktor E. Frankl
Only a man of integrity can possess the virtue of honesty, since only the faking of one’s consciousness can permit the faking of existence. — Ayn Rand
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves. — Virginia Woolf
Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. — Ayn Rand
For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and… — D. H. Lawrence

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