Emerge Quotes

• We ourselves are the last to notice that we are not making any headway. It is brought to our notice from the outside; former students suddenly emerge as our superiors. As we grow older, the respect we receive diminishes: the disproportion between our age and our position becomes evident, first to other people and finally to ourselves. Then it is time to retreat.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Students
  • Notice
  • Retreat

• Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Emerge
  • Occur
  • Phone Call

• What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Suffering
  • Come
  • Emerge

• Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

  

  Eva Brann
  • Poet
  • Gods
  • Cloud

• What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Marriage
  • Lullabies

• I know I may never emerge as a leading man.

  

  Everett McGill
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Emerge

• All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Life
  • Creation
  • Self-Expression

• Memories to the distant past, allowing the present and future to emerge.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Future
  • Memories
  • Emerge

• And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Safe
  • My Mother
  • Emerge

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