Coins Quote by Gunter Grass Download Open image “Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.” — Gunter Grass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coins Melancholy Revulsion Stasis Tails Utopia Utopian
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Happiness is the fortitude of positivity and destiny, twined together with hope and decorated with the untimely swirls of fate — Cristina Orante Copy Share Image
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“I was a happy melancholy, though — a contradiction in terms, to be sure, but every human understands this paradox, because they have all… — Jamie S. Rich Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside all mention of time and distance and, when the whole thing is done, proclaim, or let someone else proclaim, that you have finally, at the last moment, solved the space-time problem. Or you can declare at… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns… — Gunter Grass Copy Share
“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
Money doesn't spend in hell… The devil deals in a different coin. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it… — George Gissing Copy Share
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Confidentiality and transparency are not mutually exclusive, but rather two sides of the same coin. — Thomas de Maiziere Copy Share Image
Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I collect dice and I collect coins. I travel the world so I love dice, I always have dice on me. I collect magnets… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like… — Cee Lo Green Copy Share Image
No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
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