Gorer Quotes

#1. The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new "ethical duty to enjoy oneself," a novel "imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.

Joan Didion

#2. Fear is excitement without breath.

Robert Heller

#3. The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Heraclitus

#4. The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus - man is a wolf to man - ... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.

Geoffrey Gorer

#5. The mere act of dreaming is a vitalizing, life-affirming endeavor. As it turns out, using your imagination is very, very good for your wellbeing. Einstein believed that imagination was even more important than knowledge itself.

Danielle LaPorte

#6. I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond ...

Grandma Moses

#7. He pulled back to gaze at her, cupping her face in his hands. Because it's something else, too, isn't it? Something that terrifies you because you don't know how to define it. Something that makes every touch feel more right than you've ever been.

Aria Kane

#8. If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering,

Geoffrey Gorer

#9. The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.

Geoffrey Gorer