Ethan Hemming > Ethan's Quotes

“life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.”
― anaïs nin

“I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. ”
― Anaïs Nin

“When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“The old ego dies hard. Such as it was, a minister of dullness, it was also an agent of security. When it ceases to perform that second function, when it is opposed by a phenomenon that it cannot reduce to the condition of a comfortable and familiar concept, when, in a word, it betrays its trust as a screen to spare its victim the spectacle of reality, it disappears, and the victim, now an ex-victim, for a moment free, is exposed to that reality”
― Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit

“There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday. There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us...yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous”
― Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit

“Everyone needs to hear someone say 'Nobody else will do. It has to be you' sometime in their life. Even if it only happens once.”
― Kunihiko Ikuhara

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

“No one's going to notice the difference between you pushing dandelions or daisies, so leave them something worth talking about.”
― Amrit Brar, Shitty Horoscopes

“Revolution means gaining the power to imagine the future”
― Kunihiko Ikuhara

“Inside, my body is ancient. There, a hundred towers stand”
― J. A. Seazer