Quotes of: Essay Keyword

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Music at Night and Other Essays

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Montaigne: Essays

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Diablo Cody

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Nicholson Baker

Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Brian Ferneyhough

I put a positive spin on a difficult childhood in my 10 essays. Available on Amazon.com.

Helen Levin

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Chris Abani

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting.

Tina Brown

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Jodie Foster

As for dying we can only assay that once; we are all apprentices when it comes to that

The Complete Essays

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

The Complete Essays

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The Complete Essays

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Emerson's Essays

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

Essays with a Purpose

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

Bad Feminist: Essays

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

Anarchism and Other Essays

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Sceptical Essays

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

Selected Essays

The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale