Varlam Shalamov Quotes

#1. Tragedy is not deep and sharp if it can be shared with friend.

Varlam Shalamov

#2. The concept of time shuts off eternity.

Joseph Campbell

#3. If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

David Tudor

#4. We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.

Varlam Shalamov

#5. Everyone there pretended to be so bohemian and radical but really they were all worried about offending everyone else and she was fucking sick of it.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#6. We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.

George Takei

#7. While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world

Carson McCullers

#8. A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

Varlam Shalamov

#9. And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#10. The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

Leland Stanford

#11. In the grand timeline of life, two years is nothing. Here she is, her dream resurrected. Alive and soon to be kicking in fact. Dead isn't always dead.

Rachel Allord

#12. There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

Varlam Shalamov

#13. Despite all the talk of radical Islam and CHristian fundamentalism, the most interesting place in the world from a religious perspective is not the Islamic State or the Bible Belt, but Silicon Valley.

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.'

Danny Masterson

#15. and tightly coupled than the banking system; Charles

Tim Harford

#16. If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.

Varlam Shalamov

#17. Stop blubbering, Bella. You'll ruin your dress. It's just me."
"Just? Oh Jake! Everything is perfect now."
He snorted. "Yeah- the party can start. The best man finally made it."
"Now everyone I love is here.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. Twitter is good. Why say a lot to a few people when you can say virtually nothing to everyone?

Jerry Seinfeld

#19. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Varlam Shalamov