Agony Quote by Eva Hoffman Download Open image ““Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”” — Eva Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agony Awareness Consciousness Expatriate Memory Translation Two worlds
“...take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“there is an unseen wall between what you were taught to see and worlds we enter Once our mind is set free. remember Everything,” — Ilion gray Copy Share Image
“But it was time to stop forgetting the world–and time to start changing it.” — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
“I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Life is a journey of experiences, some good, some bad, and some we choose to forget!” — Steven Preece Copy Share Image
“The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it unconsciously.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“It is like remembering two different lives at once...and wondering which of them is mine...” — John Harwood Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about belonging to two worlds: Sometimes you feel like you belong in zero.” — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
“The most perfect memories are the ones too painful to forget.” — A. Meredith Walters Copy Share Image
“It is a sunny fall afternoon and I’m engaged in one of my favorite pastimes—picking chestnuts. I’m playing alone under the spreading, leafy, protective… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things, a rite… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away. — John Keble Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The cure is in the house, not brought by other hands from distant places, but by its own, in agony and blood. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image