Digressions Quotes

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them;”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sign and Its Children

“Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any further together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic whatever.”
― Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! - take them out of this book, for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be grown old.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“And by this time the Chinese box was peeling crazily, and as each layer fell away a new voice told a new tale, none of the tales finished because the box inevitably found a new story inside each unfinished one, until it seemed that digression was the true principle of the universe, that the only real subject was the way the subject kept changing, and how could anyone live in a crazy situation in which nothing remained the same for five minutes and no narrative was ever driven through to its conclusion, there could be no meaning in such an environment, only absurdity, the unmeaningness that was the only sort of meaning anyone could hold on to.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights