Simeon Strunsky Quotes

#1. Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Simeon Strunsky

#2. I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

Kat Dennings

#3. A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.

Simeon Strunsky

#4. Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?

Matsuo Basho

#5. You are here for today and come back never. Still you will live in my heart for now and forever.

Debasish Mridha

#6. People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Simeon Strunsky

#7. The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. - LONGFELLOW

L.M. Montgomery

#8. The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

Simeon Strunsky

#9. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

#10. New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

Simeon Strunsky

#11. Look, just as time isn't inside clocks
love isn't inside bodies:
bodies only tell the love.

Yehuda Amichai

#12. Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.

Henry George Bohn

#13. Statistics are the heart of democracy.

Simeon Strunsky

#14. ...he does not stir. She bows her head, looks at him, hugs him to her belly and weeps. No-one could imagine the depths of her misery.

Pierre Lemaitre

#15. One day he told me that he'd spent his adulthood trying to let go of his past, and he remarked how ironic it was that he had to get closer to it in order to let it go.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk