Best Slowness Quotes
39 Slowness quotes by 35 unique authors
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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
— Milan Kundera
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That is my problem with life, I rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea.…
— Miranda July
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I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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No," I said finally. "Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?" "1940" I said promptly, which is the…
— Connie Willis
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At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.
— Henri Barbusse
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The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals…
— Robert Bresson
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
— Cesare Pavese
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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound…
— Isadora Duncan
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The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.
— Carlo Petrini
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We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been…
— Alex Campbell
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It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are…
— Graham Swift
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It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness…
— Michael Apted
Who Wrote These Slowness Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 39 Slowness Quotes, led by these top contributors: