Appearance Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image ““Sex finds us. Sex sees through us. That's why it's so shattering. It strips us of appearances.”” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appearance Finds Sex Sees Shattering Sex Sex Finds Sex Sees Sexuality Shattering
“Once it arrives, erotic sex cannot be chased or grasped at, for it shows itself when you’re not looking.” — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
“Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem.” — Kelly Braffet Copy Share Image
“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.” — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Most people's sex life is a mystery, especially that of individuals who seem to make most parade of it. Such is the conclusion one… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of passion.” — Bee Ridgway Copy Share Image
“... but I couldn't quite believe that sex was the motivating force behind all human behavior, and that I was left out of the… — Carlene Bauer Copy Share Image
“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image
You can have a nice body, dress with the latest fashion. But if you don't have self-confidence sweetheart, forget about looking sexy, you can't… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image