Anti Essentialist Quotes

#1. I'm growing older, but not up.

Jimmy Buffett

#2. You don't always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are

Veronica Roth

#3. Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.

E. Nesbit

#4. True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

Bill Crawford

#5. What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T. S. Eliot

#6. Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness ...

Jack Kerouac

#7. He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Colum McCann

#8. I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.

David Harewood

#9. Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.

Brother Roger

#10. Our experiments have simply not yet been fruitful and have caused negative side effects." "Negative side effects?" echoed Sam, disbelievingly. "It's not like they've got the shits or something, is it? They're deformed and half out of their minds.

Suzanne Wright

#11. The sense of success -the most agreeable emotion of the human heart

Henry James

#12. We both look mournfully in the window as we pass, though I'd sworn to myself that I wouldn't. Nothing says orphans like two kids breaking their necks looking at trays of November cakes and platters of shaped cookies and lovely soft loaves of bread still steaming the window they're next to.

Maggie Stiefvater