Best Slowness Quotes

39 Slowness quotes by 35 unique authors

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
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
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
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
At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness. — Henri Barbusse
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
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. — Cesare Pavese
There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. — Philibert Joseph Roux
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
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
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
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
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

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