Life Quote by J.M. Coetzee Download Open image ““The shocks of existence: he must learn to take them more lightly.”” — J.M. Coetzee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life
“But he is only stunned by the unvanquishable difficulty of his existence.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he’d taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...” — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“He had the feeling that humanity was running in place. So many centuries and they had not learned anything new.” — Oliver Pötzsch Copy Share Image
“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For he was not strong enough to receive the impact of unfamiliar things without a little talk to break their fall.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Man has no understanding , he can be taught a few simple tricks nothing more. He is a nuisance, the sooner he is exterminated… — Dr. Zauius Planet of the apes Copy Share Image
“from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Man’s only justification for physical existence is to learn; this is his destiny which he cannot avoid under any circumstances.” — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
“I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your thoughts and your feelings. Follow them through… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Technically he is old enough to be her father; but then, technically one can be a father at twelve.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“I remember asking John, after Dusklands, what new project he had on the go. His answer was vague. 'There is always something or the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard." --Disgrace” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share
“Since I was in flight from religion, I assumed that my classmates had to be in flight from religion too, albeit in a quieter, savvier way than I had as yet been able to discover. Only today do I realize how mistaken I was. They were never in flight at all. Nor are their children in flight, or their grandchildren.… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share
“Lucy was frightened, frightened near to death. Her voice choked, she could not breath, her limbs went numb. "This is not happening", she said to herself as the men forced her down; "it is just a dream, a nightmare". While the men, for their part, drank up her fear, revelled in it, did all they could to hurt her, to… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share
“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“He sits with the pen in his hand, holding himself back from a descent into representations that have no place in the world, on… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Do you remember Vlek, who was such a good sheepdog that she and Jakob alone could drive a whole flock past you at the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“...from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
