Close to death Quote by Eva Hoffman Download Open image ““To be an adult is to be close to death.”” — Eva Hoffman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Close to death Death
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being an adult is about learning how to die.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Being an adult isn't a matter of age. It's a matter of responsibility.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
“To be adult means, among other things, to see one’s own life in continuous perspective, both in retrospect and in prospect.” — Samuel H. Barondes Copy Share Image
“As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“In this country you're an adult; I'll grant you that. But your adulthood in other terms is still a long time away.” — Cesar Torres Copy Share Image
“We need strong, firm adults in our lives. And that those adults have to be us.” — Heidi Priebe Copy Share Image
“In fact, if you're not prepared to die when you're almost sixty, then I would say you've been falling down on your philosophical responsibilities… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I want to keep all of me, and I don't think you get to do that. I think becoming an adult means leaving part… — Katie Kennedy Copy Share Image
“You’re an adult, and immortal—you’re free to make your own choices, not have them crammed down your throat by my actions.” — Jill Myles 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
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.” — 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
“There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love one feels… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“I had never been so close to death before. For a long time, as I lay there trying to clear my mind, I couldn't… — Andre Brink Copy Share Image
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience. — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!” — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
