198 Quotes

“I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

“Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“If, as Kundera says, death's terror stems from the idea of the past vanishing, then reexperiencing the past is vital reassurance. Transiency is stayed - if only for a while.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“Of this I am at least sure: Hope is nonviolent resistance, rebellion, and revolution. It has always been so, though never hast the lesson been so forcefully taught. And this is hopeful.”
― Philip Berrigan, Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary

“Misalnya, semua struktur masyarakat selalu punya masalah. Punya ‘penyakit’. Kemarin sore kita menyaksikan teman baikmu ditendang berkali-kali. Apa dosanya? Sial. Dia tidak tahu bahwa dirinya menghalangi jalan Pengendali Hewan. Itu penyakit. Virus dalam kehidupan bermasyarakat. Penyakit itu sama bahayanya dengan virus betulan. Bahkan dalam situasi tertentu, daya rusaknya lebih besar.”
― Pak Tua (Si Putih)

“Misalnya, semua struktur masyarakat selalu punya masalah. Punya ‘penyakit’. Kemarin sore kita menyaksikan teman baikmu ditendang berkali-kali. Apa dosanya? Sial. Dia tidak tahu bahwa dirinya menghalangi jalan Pengendali Hewan. Itu penyakit. Virus dalam kehidupan bermasyarakat. Penyakit itu sama bahayanya dengan virus betulan. Bahkan dalam situasi tertentu, daya rusaknya lebih besar.”
― Pak Tua, Si Putih Tere Liye