Encounter Quote by Frank Kermode

“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an…

— Tom Robbins

“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“But that there is a simple relation between literary and other fictions seems, if one attends to it, more obvious than has appeared. If…

— Frank Kermode

Whenever you meet anybody, it is a holy encounter. The primary event is the energy field of presence between you and the other human…

— Eckhart Tolle

A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

— Daisaku Ikeda

“If an encounter with a person doesn't feel right, probably it's not right.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does…

— Pope Benedict XVI

All actual life is encounter.

— Martin Buber

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

— Anonymous

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

— Jon Champion

An encounter with god or with the transcendent, per se, can only occur when we experience the violent side of god.

— Anonymous