Quotes of: Constants Keyword

Hap sighed. If he could change one thing about Umber-besides his constant need for the thrill of exploration-it would be his obsession with secrets and surprises.

Dragon Games

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

It takes great courage to accept the constant changes of the emotions within ourselves, and even more audacity to express them whenever they occur and without filter or delay.

Divine Union

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.

The Erotic Poems

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

The Elephant Tree

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life.

The Flight of the Eagle

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Love shouldn't feel like the Hunger Games. There should not be a constant struggle for survival.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Boris Pasternak

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

The Hours

That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

To find the courage to keep writing after constant failure is awesomeness. Winning is eminent.

How to Write High Quality Articles In Half the Time

Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.

Minor King

(…) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.

Notes from Ghost Town

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Waiting for Godot

I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle.

The Yellow Birds