Quotes About Ersatz

#1. It's all on the surface. Advantage of wealth and power makes this available to them, but it's ersatz as the day is long.

Philip K. Dick

#2. There is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.

Gunter Grass

#3. A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.

Simone Weil

#4. Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content with the ersatz of Suchness, with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Aldous Huxley

#5. But your imaginings would be ersatz, as all imaginings are.

Lemony Snicket

#6. The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.

Simone Weil

#7. They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee.

Leon Uris

#8. Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#9. Eduardo started a fire, made a pot of ersatz

Kristin Hannah

#10. There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Simone Weil

#11. I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

#12. I enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page be page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT.

Helene Hanff

#13. Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz - industrial uses. Do you see? No consumers' commodities.

Philip K. Dick

#14. Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Nenia Campbell

#15. Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.
"No," Sunny answered.
"Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

Lemony Snicket

#16. Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

Lemony Snicket

#17. And I fell in love. Deep, hard, utter and complete love.

Mia Sheridan

#18. I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

Peter Cook

#19. I needed to stay in the character.

Michael Pitt

#20. It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

Lemony Snicket

#21. I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.

Cheyenne Kimball

#22. Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain