Apartness Quotes

#1. I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God a union of two totally different kinds of beings.

Karl Barth

#2. In emphasizing God's love over his holiness
his set-apartness as a sovereign, omniscient authority
we end up believing that his central concern is our individual happiness.

Leslie Leyland Fields

#3. He never made fun of her as her neighbors did. That was why she visited him. He felt in this mad, ugly woman five years his senior a comrade in apartness. He liked people who refused to recognize the world.

Yukio Mishima

#4. We are always alone. We are never alone. Even in the center of a crowd of friends , we cannot escape our apartness; even in the locked and darkened room, we cannot cut ourselves off from our sense of the life going on outside.

Lester M. Schulman

#5. There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

Todd Solondz

#6. No," Trey says. "Males rarely touch each other." "Really?" "And females rarely touch males they don't know or who aren't a part of their family," he adds, making me feel awkward all of a sudden. I've been holding his hand all day, I think, feeling stupid.

Amy A. Bartol

#7. Flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.

Muriel Spark

#8. I don't know how to feel about those deaths. Guilty, maybe, for not seeing the pain myself. Sad, that some people can't find another way to escape.

Veronica Roth

#9. Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Andrew Denton

#10. Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I just want someone to say something real.

Katie Alender

#11. No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.

Lidiya K.

#12. If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right. Be the best you can be at whatever it is you choose to do.

Scott Hildreth

#13. Not many people know how tumultuous and draining family life can be with a child who has had adverse early experiences.

Wendy Borders Gauntner

#14. When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Dante Alighieri

#15. The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#16. Life's what you see in people's eyes; life's what they learn, and, having learnt it, never, though they seek to hide it, cease to be aware of
what? That life's like that, it seems.

Virginia Woolf

#17. Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.

James A. Owen

#18. Is this thing safe?"
"Safe as life," Gansey replied.

Maggie Stiefvater

#19. Change doesn't always mean instability, you know. Being dormant? Now that's crippling, much worse than change.

Catherine DePasquale