Erpenbeck Jenny Quotes

#1. I never really wanted to be a star. I didn't like entering a room with all eyes on me. I still don't really like the attention of a birthday party.

Joni Mitchell

#2. Because sometime, somehow, the god spoke your name. You took a step too far and here you are. None of us can ever go back. Even if we wanted to.

Catherine Fisher

#3. I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

Garth Greenwell

#4. Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar

Jenny Erpenbeck

#5. Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#6. My fear of the future, she says, has not yet failed.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#7. The end of a day on which a life has ended is still far from being the end of days.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#8. Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

Rumi

#9. How much better it would be, she thinks, if the world were ruled by chance and not a God.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#10. Sometimes the price one pays for something continues to grow after the fact,becoming too expensive long after it has been paid.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#11. There's a difference between music that's original and music that's retro. A lot of bands now are kind of retro 70s whether it's Kraut-rock or ... I've heard people suggest that we're kind of retro 80s.

Bill Orcutt

#12. A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#13. Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Be the man of no one! Instead, be the man of truth, only the truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. I think every role you get is going to be a powerful one. As long as you go in with the mindset of, 'Yeah, I'm going to make the most of this.' So that's the kind of attitude I take into each role that I play.

Anna Hutchison

#16. Thus, we may observe, it is usual with God to smite us in those very comforts which stole away too much of the love and delight of our souls from God; to cross us in those things from which we raised up too great expectations of comfort.

John Flavel

#17. Every single moment of this afternoon is too late for her to leave again

Jenny Erpenbeck

#18. If you start to focus on your opponent then you see so much quality in your opponents and weaknesses in your own side. You start to put doubts in your mind. You need to respect your opponents but that's it, no more.

Emmanuel Petit

#19. It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact, there appears as yet no reason for modifying the tentative hypothesis that the spirals are not composed of typical stars at all, but are truly nebulous objects.

Harlow Shapley

#20. ... when he slipped out of his mother's womb, he was already filled with interior spaces that didn't belong to him, and he can't just look inside to inspect his own interior.

Jenny Erpenbeck

#21. Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.

Nachman Of Breslov

#22. It would be lovely if he and his wife would succeed in dying before the matter of inherited property was finally settled. Then the person giving the speech at the funeral would be able to say that until the very end they had been able to pursue what they loved: sailing. [p. 121]

Jenny Erpenbeck

#23. Which means that in the end there are certain things you can take with you when you flee, things that have no weight, such as music.

Jenny Erpenbeck