Fragment Quotes

• In one war, there are a thousand wars within that war--each one private, singular, inaccessible, a fragment, a piece of a larger whole, parallel yet forever separate. And all we do in life is struggle with our impoverished efforts to put our war into words. I don't believe most of us ever succeed in our translations. It's an art most of us never conquer. That's why we argue with one another. We're like countries--each of us clinging to our separate histories. We're fighting one another about our translations, about what really happened. Which is another kind of war.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • War
  • Words
  • Fighting

• I never take a picture of a face because a face is somebody, an arm is not recognizable as somebody. When you take a photograph of someone's face, it identifies it as somebody, but if you take just a fragment, it's everybody. It's not one person.

  

  Annette Messager
  • Face
  • Photograph
  • Fragment

• Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Place
  • Natural
  • Sanity

• You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

  

  Epictetus
  • Work
  • Birth
  • Fragment

• Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

  

  Josiah Royce
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Fragment

• Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Thought
  • Consciousness
  • Ripples