Top 100 Inhabit Quotes
#1. War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
Ernie Pyle
#2. We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.
Krishna Das
#3. Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.
Andre Gide
#4. We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.
Andrew O'Hagan
#5. No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.
Ludwig Von Mises
#6. I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
Salman Rushdie
#7. The downside is the fear.The fear of something happening to her, the pressure of there being two bodies in the world that I want to keep from harm and only being able to watchfully inhabit one of them. I wonder if you know what I mean.I hope you do for your sake.
David Mitchell
#8. It begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places ...
John Geddes
#9. But lately she had been starting to experience strong, inarticulate feelings of longing, of a desire to be with Joe all the time, to inhabit his life and allow him to inhabit hers, to engage with him in some kind of joint enterprise, in a collaboration that would *be* their lives.
Michael Chabon
#10. I am not my body, although I inhabit it, I am not my mind, although I use it as a tool. And I'm definitely not my opinions or beliefs, they are just things that I hold.
A. Antares
#11. In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.
David Grubbs
#12. It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body.
Libba Bray
#13. The city I inhabit now is not the city that I moved to in 1926; it has become a mean-spirited action movie complete with repulsive plot twists and preposterous dialogue.
Kathleen Rooney
#14. The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.
John Steinbeck
#15. I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my own personality.
Jenny Offill
#16. I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#17. Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#18. You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.
Michele Cassou
#19. Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
Gail Godwin
#20. Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.
Francois Mauriac
#21. The world is ... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#22. Your life becomes the shape of the days you inhabit.
John O'Donohue
#23. My name is all but lost to antiquity while his legend is told and retold around the world. Yet I am a god and he is nothing but a bastard seed not even fit to inhabit Olympus. (Priapus)
Get your hands off her, you worthless footnote. You're not fit to wipe her shoes. (Julian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
Mary Szybist
#25. His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
Juliet Marillier
#26. I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains ... awareness after the body's gone.
Phoebe Snow
#27. When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.
Andy Serkis
#28. Most people don't inhabit a living reality, but a conceptualized one.
Eckhart Tolle
#29. Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention
a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?
C.S. Lewis
#30. As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to be released at last from the dreary frenzy of time. Is that what it feels to be naked? All one's clothes are gone, yet one's mind is overladen with finery.
Muriel Barbery
#31. It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.
James Smithson
#32. There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.
Caroline Llewellyn
#33. Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller
#34. When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has become homeless, and we are offering it a place to inhabit in the present.
Yiyun Li
#35. Every character and person in life needs a voice and every once in a while I get to inhabit the voice of the misunderstood.
David Koechner
#36. The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.
Frederick Lenz
#37. Our life on earth cannot sustain without healthy oceans - and because of that, the beings who inhabit and allow that eco system to work need our help. Let's start with our wonderment, and go from there. Allow that, and it becomes easy.
Maggie Q
#38. I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.
Scott Bradfield
#39. We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#40. Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#41. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Sitting Bull
#42. Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days to shopping and kill time watching talk-shows.
John O'Donohue
#43. To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
Diane Ackerman
#44. I close my eyes to the ability
to inhabit four places
in long enough intervals
to miss them all.
Gabby Bess
#45. To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.
Kelli O'Hara
#46. I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.
Sonia Sotomayor
#47. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. - NORMAN MAILER
Kevin Fedarko
#48. Leaving home does something to your sense of identity. Either you become more of that place than you ever were while you lived there, or your identity calcifies around the rejection of this place. It is challenging to inhabit the space between these two positions.
Sari Botton
#49. I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel
#50. We've been given this gift, our planet, and we've found no other place in the universe that we can inhabit. I want to do something to create radical change to help save it. It's our responsibility.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#52. What I feel personally and what I can act are two different things. Maybe one of the great pleasures of my job is being able to inhabit worlds that you are never going to inhabit personally.
Helen Mirren
#53. Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to the Canadian border, through Everett, Seattle, and Tacoma, to Olympia, the state capital, at the southern end of the sound.
Jonathan Raban
#54. We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.
Desmond Tutu
#55. Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#57. For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
David Bowie
#58. You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.
Stockard Channing
#59. Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.
Hideo Kojima
#60. For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.
Christopher Morley
#61. The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian
heroes, lies in
lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions
Frank O'Hara
#62. It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.
Max Heindel
#63. One may also inhabit the limen, the place in between realities, a gap 'between and betwixt' universes of sense that construe social life and persons differently, an interstice from where one can most clearly stand critically toward different structures.
Maria Lugones
#64. Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.
Elaine Scarry
#65. The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical principles in the task of ensuring a sustainable future for those who inhabit the Earth now and those who will follow us on the Earth.
Maurice Strong
#66. I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.
Shirley Maclaine
#67. We need a dream-world in order to discover the features of the real world we think we inhabit.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
#68. The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
Malcolm Gladwell
#69. Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that ... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.
Jean Helion
#70. All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization ... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.
Aldous Huxley
#71. I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so - but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ.
Dan Simmons
#72. For Orwell, the loss of a life was the loss of a mind was the loss of a world, and the world we inhabit is poorer for each loss, for the contributions that mind could have made.
Josh Hanagarne
#73. How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
Iris Murdoch
#74. It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.
Mike White
#75. Living by synchronicity isn't merely about getting messages. It is about growing the poetic consciousness that allows us to taste and touch what rhymes and resonates in the world we inhabit, and how the world-behind-th e-world reveals itself by fluttering the veils of our consensual reality.
Robert Moss
#76. We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#77. I've tried to shield myself from life and inhabit my own small, safe corner; but there's no immunity from life.
Ann Kidd Taylor
#78. Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit.
Colin Dickey
#79. If there were no fools,' said Circumbright, 'either among us or among them, we could co-inhabit the earth.
there's the flaw in any compromise negotiation - the fact of fools, both among the Teleks and the common men.
Jack Vance
#80. If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#81. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.
Alexandra Robbins
#82. Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged
where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.
Philip Roth
#84. Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
Tom Stoppard
#85. The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
Seneca The Younger
#86. The world an author creates and the characters that inhabit it may come from her imagination alone, but few authors can wrestle the story that emerges into shape without help.
Tammara Webber
#87. We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#88. An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.
Eckhart Tolle
#89. I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.
Ruth Ozeki
#90. And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.
Rosamund Lupton
#91. I don't think that the people in my stories are lying to themselves. Well, some of them are - everybody is at some level. But there is something about how they all inhabit a narrative of their own making.
Joshuah Bearman
#92. Nanotechnology experts are developing a bionic immune system composed of millions of nano-robots, who would inhabit our bodies, open blocked blood vessels, fight viruses and bacteria, eliminate cancerous cells and even reverse ageing processes.
Yuval Noah Harari
#93. I know I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself on the page, inhabit it; I have to remember never to put in more than is necessary, never overlay, never furnish or adorn.
Valeria Luiselli
#94. One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
Ron Rash
#95. In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.
Aysha Taryam
#96. When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.
Lois Lowry
#97. Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut
#98. After all, he meant well. Foreigners never seem to understand how little attraction an island of damp fogs, cut off from civilization, and a provincial little court has for us Parisians, who inhabit the most cultivated, powerful monarchy in the world.
Judith Merkle Riley
#99. We are more than the bodies we inhabit," Fawkes said. "They're little more than clothes, and yet we judge so much by them.
Michael J. Sullivan
#100. No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.
Donald C. Peattie
