Rupture Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal.… — Eugene Ionesco
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience… — Bridget Riley
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture… — Ray Kurzweil
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a… — William Shirley
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. — Shoshana Zuboff
Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves breathe… — Lauren Slater
Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those… — Spider Robinson
Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping… — George Kubler
How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital bed, beingdoted on by an… — Marjorie M. Liu
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world. — William Kentridge
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and… — Ayad Akhtar
When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will… — Michel Martelly
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things… — Clement Greenberg
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was… — Camille Paglia
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with… — Georges Bataille
Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all… — Jhonen Vasquez
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance â€¦ something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the… — Julio Cortazar

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