Description Quote by Don DeLillo Download Open image ““...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.”” — Don DeLillo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Description Disasters Life
“Tragedy, in its full and life-altering form, happened to other people.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“That was what life was: a process of destruction, a disintegration from what at the outset was perfect. The only suspense involved was whether… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune.” — Tracy Brogan Copy Share Image
“The greatest Tragedy of life is not death but what dies within us when we are still alive” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...” — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“it might be argued that our lives are a concatenation of minutiae interrupted at unpredictable times by significant events.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the events meant to destroy you are the conditions that bring you to life.” — Joshua Viola Copy Share Image
“Some of the greatest tragedies of life are unrecognized oppurtunities” — Tonny K. Brown 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
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
