Ancient Quote by Robert Walser Download Open image “Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls” — Robert Walser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Carrie Cities Persons Sensitive Sensitive person Wall
“It is so important for us as empaths to maintain a sense of connectedness with life. When we put up walls to protect ourselves,… — Aletheia Luna Copy Share Image
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
People put up walls, not to keep people away. But to see who cares enough to tear those walls down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring them down.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
We put up these walls not to keep people out, but sometimes to see who cares enough to knock them down.. — Mikey Mar Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live… — Benjamin Hale Copy Share Image
“A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.” — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“My cheeks are red hot, my lip still trembles, because I sent my heart to speak; every word of it delusional and awkward, an… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“What honest man was never in his life without sustenance? And what human being has ever seen as the years pass his hopes, plans,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there were a few repetitions here and there. But I would like to confess that I consider nature and human life to be… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“They should not clench their fists, it’s my longing that’s drawing me near to them; they should not stand there full of rage, my… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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