39 quotes found
“o Theres no way to really preserve a person when theyve gone and thats because whatever you write down its not the truth, its just a story. Stories are all were ever left with in our head or on pap...”
“Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were ...”
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.”
“But you cant put fight into a mans guts if hehasnt any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcant ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much, may...”
“God may save all, but human rescue is only for a few.”
“Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never known what I am? My vices, my virtues, are under my nose, but I cant see them, nor stand far enoug...”
“...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.”
“They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.”
“Then there are also the quiet deaths. How about the day you realized you weren't going to be an astronaut or the queen of Sheba? Feel the silent distance between yourself and how you felt as a chil...”
“We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.”
“Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.”
“You think it’s a game?Unintelligible? Ha!Envision no spoons.This is serious.It is a matter of joyversus emptiness.”
“There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on...”
“Just then his state of being was so curious that he was compelled , himself, to see it -- eager, grieving, fantastic, dangerous, crazed and, to the point of death, "comical." It was enough to make ...”
“o There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or ...”
“Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavour to do, he dr...”
“But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if hehasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that youcan’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death.We know too much,...”
“Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never known what I am? My vices, my virtues, are under my nose, but I can’t see them, nor stand far enou...”
