David Markson Quotes

The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

David Markson

• Emptiness
• Anticipation
• Recollection

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• The American dream is still to own your home.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Home
  • American
  • Dream

• The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Lord
  • Judgment
  • Supreme

• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Energy
  • Candy
  • Fat

• Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Live
  • May
  • Alone

• We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Should
  • Said
  • Humility

• Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Want
  • Image

• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Groups
  • Mediocrity

• The bite of conscience is indecent.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Conscience
  • Bite
  • Indecent

• I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Swaraj
  • Hardihood

• To love is to will the good of the other.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Good
  • Love Is

• I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Years
  • Developing
  • Realistic

• The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

  

  George Will
  • Future
  • Arriving
  • Unannounced

• Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Desires
  • Possess
  • Emptiness

• There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Men
  • Question
  • Violation

• The morning’s recollection of the emptiness of the day before. Its anticipation of the emptiness of the day to come.

  

  David Markson
  • Emptiness
  • Anticipation
  • Recollection