Adam Zagajewski Quotes

A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

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• Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • History
  • Without
  • Malaysia

• Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • School
  • Heart
  • Freedom

• It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Rain
  • Nonsense
  • Farewell

• I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Away
  • Throw
  • Astrologer

• Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thought
  • Productive
  • Feature

• A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

  

  Confucius
  • Patience
  • Project
  • Disruption

• Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Earth
  • Opportunity
  • Feelings

• Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fear
  • Sleep

• Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  

  William Winwood Reade
  • Genius
  • Artistic
  • Imitation

• Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • World
  • Compassion
  • Comfort

• One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Environment
  • Gun
  • Lines

• Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.

  

  William Moulton Marston
  • Water
  • Speak
  • Drink

• A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Mind
  • Feelings
  • Lying

• One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Friends
  • Dancing
  • Nightclub

• A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

  

  Adam Zagajewski
  • Traveler
  • Asked
  • Sparrows