Edmond Jabes Quotes

What escapes us tears us from ourselves and ruins us. I seek what cannot be sought. I am a miscarried void, the hollowest quest.

Edmond Jabes

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• Ruins
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• My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Live
  • Day

• When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.

  

  Cam
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Society

• The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.

  

  Gary Gygax

• He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lonely

• This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Question
  • Imagination
  • Sex

• He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.

  

  Rihanna
  • Friends
  • Teenager

• Che l'amar senza speme è sogno e ciancia.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • People
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.

  

  Andy Hobsbawm
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Innovation

• The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Daughter

• At the end of the day, I am a Marwari. So I will always think of business like a Marwari!

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Business

• We have a lot of great lesbian role models in tennis. I mean, Martina Navratilova in her heyday was probably the greatest female athlete on the planet. Martina just kept breaking every rule. That's a great role model.

  

  David Furnish
  • Great
  • Model
  • Athlete

• When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

  

  Amy Childs
  • Work
  • Long
  • Reality

• Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

  

  Jacques Ellul

• For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Power
  • Memories
  • Despair

• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • God
  • Death
  • Giving

• I know all the problems of the schools. They're rigid, they're bureaucratic, they've got a lot of problems. But it's such an important institution, and holds such promise.

  

  Edward Zigler
  • Problems
  • Promise
  • Schools

• All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Shows

• What escapes us tears us from ourselves and ruins us. I seek what cannot be sought. I am a miscarried void, the hollowest quest.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Tears
  • Seek
  • Ruins