Clutch Quote by Czeslaw Milosz Download Open image “Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.” — Czeslaw Milosz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clutch Illusion Men
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“When someone is honestly 55 percent right, that’s very good and there’s no use wrangling. And if someone is 60 percent right, it’s wonderful,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion. — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality… — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
In New York’s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West! — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become… I am… — Franklin Knight Lane Copy Share Image
As for a signature accessory, I believe in something totally unique that I love and is very personal. It could be a fab pair… — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Copy Share Image
Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
