"And yet, words are the passkeys to our……" — Diane Ackerman
"And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives."
—
Diane Ackerman
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman has 128 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
-
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of…
-
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
-
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
-
Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
-
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
-
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
-
We live on the leash of our senses.
-
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
-
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
-
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
See all 128 quotes by Diane Ackerman »
More Enormity Quotes
This quote is filed under Enormity Quotes,
one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
— Emile M. Cioran
-
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
— Matthieu Ricard
-
It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a billion women have been raped or beaten, just the…
— Anne Hathaway
-
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could…
— Primo Levi
-
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the…
— Michael Rapaport
-
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since…
— John Perry Barlow
-
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of…
— George Orwell
-
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices....…
— Peter Damian
-
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of…
— Gustav Holst
-
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love…
— Edna O'Brien
-
It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of…
— Stephen Levine
-
It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the…
— Niall Williams
See all 45 Enormity Quotes »