Sehnsucht Quotes

#1. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

#2. What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Emma Goldman

#3. The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

George MacDonald

#4. Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.

John Russell Napier

#5. Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

Gertrude Stein

#6. They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower.

Alister E. McGrath

#7. The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

Susan Sontag

#8. On Algebra - We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I'm concerned ... Damn it! They put a man on the moon; can't they find some way to end the scourge of Algebra?

Huston Piner

#9. I don't hafta take his sass

Harper Lee

#10. One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.

Erma Bombeck

#11. I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

Nicole Kidman

#12. If you review on GoodReads - make sure you review on Amazon as well!! Help out an author and leave an Amazon review!

Aimee Brown

#13. Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

Marcus Brigstocke