"Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are……" — Rebecca Solnit
"Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit has 127 quotes on this site.
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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More Cannot Feel Quotes
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I…
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Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his…
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A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the…
— Frederick The Great
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their…
— Aristotle
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss,…
— Rajneesh
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A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is…
— Thomas Sowell
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In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Boredom is the consciousness of repetition. Because animals cannot remember the past, they cannot feel bored. They cannot remember the…
— Rajneesh
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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for…
— David Seamands
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