Walter Benjamin Quotes

Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Die
  • Chance
  • Finding

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Real
  • You
  • Die

• I don't die in anything!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Die
  • Anything

• I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Young

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Die

• When I was working at Teleflora, I got booked to do 'Talladega Nights,' so I went and did that. That was really my first big break ev-er. I made as much from my per diem during the three-month shoot as I did for the entire previous year.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Working
  • First
  • Year

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Work
  • Long
  • High

• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Friends
  • Die
  • Regret

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Die
  • Intellect
  • Labour

• If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.

  

  George Muller
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

  

  Tertullian
  • God
  • Sin
  • Suppose

• I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.

  

  Marge Simon
  • Long
  • Poetry
  • Canvas

• Zur Verknechtung der Sprache im Geschwätz tritt die Verknechtung der Dinge in der Narretei fast als deren unausbleibliche Folge.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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