Quote by George Steiner Download Open image ““The symmetries of immanence are cruel.”” — George Steiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.” — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
“We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Gods, when did we discover how easy it is to be cruel to one another?” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“The cruel truth exposes the ugly side of us so deeply that we find solace in the last defence hiding behind the facade of… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, after all, there is a bit of justice in this mean, cruel world.” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“Human beings are cruel creatures. And what we don’t understand, we tamper with until we destroy it.” — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
“To impoverish that reality whose inhumanity constitutes man’s majesty is tantamount to impoverishing him himself.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the cruelest of punishments.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward manifestation of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
