Poetic Confessions Quotes

#1. Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Walter Pater

#3. The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

Wesley Morris

#4. I just feel like there's this illicit thrill in reading other people's mail and spying on their lives.

Maria Semple

#5. Not because I couldn't find God, but because suddenly I absolutely did: God was there, I realized, and God had no intention of making things happen or not, of saving my mother's life. God was not a granter of wishes. God was a ruthless bitch.

Cheryl Strayed

#6. Ought a woman to disclose her frailties earlier than the wedding day? Few husbands, I assure you, make the discovery in such good season, and still fewer complain that these trifles are concealed too long. Well, what a strange man you are! Poh! you are joking.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone's obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag.

Evan Currie

#8. There are always roles that seem enticing that you can't do because of scheduling.

John Krasinski

#9. Fall with awareness and acceptance.

Bryan Kest

#10. Life is the literary result of my passionate love affair between self and the universe...

Curtis R. Smith

#11. Oh, the beauty of it, how to deal with it? How to meet it?

Karl Ove Knausgard

#12. Nietzsche's point is that the world does not present itself as an indifferent array of inert facts. The world tempts and repulses, threatens and charms; certain features impress themselves upon us, others recede into the perphery, unnoticed. Our experience of the world is fundamentally value-laden.

Paul Katsafanas

#13. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

Jane Austen

#14. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

Anne Lamott

#15. The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.

Dwyane Wade

#16. Guys think that if a girl is pretty, she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with, I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or, I've had to ask them.

Brooke Shields

#17. Believe your beliefs and doubt your doubts.

F. F. Bosworth