Detachment Quote by Edmond Jabes Download Open image “We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.” — Edmond Jabes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detachment Distance Emptiness Language Numbness Speak
We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named. — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The incarnate Word is with us, is still speaking, is present always, yet leaves no sign but everything that is. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion) — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown… — Edmond Jabès Copy Share Image
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die. — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or… — Siddhārtha Gautama Copy Share Image
I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space. — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon. — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
