Anne Sexton Quotes

Catch me. I'm your disease.

Anne Sexton

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• There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Great
  • Trying

• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • You
  • Story
  • See

• A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Mother
  • Me

• That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Poetry
  • Body

• There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Complex

• Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

  

  Wally Amos
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Obstacle

• Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Faith

• I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Star
  • Sweet

• I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Love
  • Mother

• I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • True
  • House
  • Always

• When it comes to social issues, Republicans don't just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Need

• Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Small
  • Gold

• A sensible man should not demand of me, or hope that when we mention a subject, we shall make a complete exposition of it.

  

  Maimonides
  • Hope

• You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Success
  • Failure

• If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

  

  Aubrey de Grey
  • People
  • Work

• I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.

  

  Jamie Redknapp
  • Time
  • Home

• Bless God, he went as soldiers, His musket on his breast; Grant, God, he charge the bravest Of all the martial blest.Please God, might I behold him In epauletted white, I should not fear the foe then, I should not fear the fight.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Fear

• I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.

  

  Lee DeWyze
  • World
  • Music
  • Change

• Catch me. I'm your disease.

  

  Anne Sexton