A Quotes
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“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.”
“At Times I Am A Flower
...at times I am a flower ~
singularly defined ...”
Source: Enigmatic Evolution
“At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered false and my alcoholic father's memory is considered rational and sane.
Am I not believed because I am a woman?
If Peter Freyd were a man who lived in my neighborhood during my childhood instead of my father, would he and his wife be so believable? If not, what is it about his status as my father that makes him more credible?”
“At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.”
“At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.”
Source: The History of Love: A Novel
“At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.”
“At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.”
Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien
“At times I'd felt courageous on the journey, but it was borrowed courage. Now we were here, and neither of us had a plan. Was she going to abandon me, leave me stranded in my body? I'd be in exile with a stomach that demanded more of everything.”
Source: Milk Fed
“at times I do not think
yet I can think
yet I can be a thought
at times I am not present
yet I don't lose my presence
without a soul, I'm still a body
without a body still a soul
never altogether gone
forevermore the only one
who lasts in every day”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.”
“At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.”
“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.”
Source: The House of the Spirits
“At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything.”
“At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.”
Source: Notebooks, 1951-1959
“At times I felt a huge exhilaration, a freedom from all falsehoods and conventions, all means by which a soul or body can be held hostage!”
Source: Pandora
“At times, I felt like an immoral stalker. I knew that I had become a monster, but love, madness and insanity are hard to explain. Love isn’t a feeling or emotion that fades with time. It is a passion that only intensifies. It defies all wrongs. Thus, my ishq had transformed into my deewangi.”
Source: Train to Mumbai
“At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.”
Source: Eva Luna
“At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.”
Source: Eva Luna: A Novel
“At times, I had nightmares. What would happen if I manage to outlive my parents (you never know about the smokers, for they can die anytime)? Would there be anyone to cremate my dead body? Or will people discover it after fourteen days, only when they feel the stench? Should I adopt a dog? No! Who will take care of him once I die? Should I adopt cats? They’re independent and self-sufficient, right? But what If I have a stroke and fail to provide them food, would they then eat me alive, bit by bit, in their extreme hunger?”
Source: The World's Most Frustrated Man
“At times I hate myself for being so out of control.’ If Amy doesn’t understand how her mind works she ends up beating herself up and feeling bad about it. If she understands how her mind works then we have a very different scenario and interpretation. What really happened, and how it could have been interpreted more accurately, is as follows.”
“At times I have discovered a new lowness of spirit, a new need to revolt, to kick against the constraints that a civilized life tries to impose.” He stopped and regarded her. “Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed and defective?”
Source: The Angry Tide
“At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.”
Source: Every Day I Pray: Prayers for Awakening to the Grace of Inner Communion
“At times I make music, but in private.”
“At times I might hate the behavior, but don’t confuse that with my feelings regarding the person. For it is all too easy to attempt to lend weight to your stance by errantly declaring that my hatred of one is hatred of both, when actually my hatred of one is born out of my love for the other.”
“At times I think and at times I am.”
“At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.”
“At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.”
“At times I've struggled to feel seen, to have my history feel seen, to have where I come from feel seen because I 'turned out great.' But that doesn't meant that I Am Fine. I am working every day, tirelessly, like you wouldn't believe, on being fine, f**king finally, can we get this over with, I'm so tired and I just want to travel and eat and smile and move through the world with a semblance of peace.”
Source: How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
“At times I was desperate and could find no solace anywhere. Nothing seemed to work, and the weight of being trapped in my own body made it difficult to lift even a hand off the sheets.”
“At times … I wish
I could meet in a duel
the man who killed my father
and razed our home,
expelling me
into
a narrow country.
And if he killed me,
I’d rest at last,
and if I were ready—
I would take my revenge!
*
But if it came to light,
when my rival appeared,
that he had a mother
waiting for him,
or a father who’d put
his right hand over
the heart’s place in his chest
whenever his son was late
even by just a quarter-hour
for a meeting they’d set—
then I would not kill him,
even if I could.
*
Likewise … I
would not murder him
if it were soon made clear
that he had a brother or sisters
who loved him and constantly longed to see him.
Or if he had a wife to greet him
and children who
couldn’t bear his absence
and whom his gifts would thrill.
Or if he had
friends or companions,
neighbors he knew
or allies from prison
or a hospital room,
or classmates from his school …
asking about him
and sending him regards.
*
But if he turned
out to be on his own—
cut off like a branch from a tree—
without a mother or father,
with neither a brother nor sister,
wifeless, without a child,
and without kin or neighbors or friends,
colleagues or companions,
then I’d add not a thing to his pain
within that aloneness—
not the torment of death,
and not the sorrow of passing away.
Instead I’d be content
to ignore him when I passed him by
on the street—as I
convinced myself
that paying him no attention
in itself was a kind of revenge.”
Source: So What: New and Selected Poems 1971-2005
“At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”
“At times I'd much rather talk about other work.”
“At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.”
“At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.”
“At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.”
Source: Truisms and essays
“At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“At times, it can be difficult to even set aside moments for relaxation, let alone opportunities to pursue personal development.”
“At times, it can be incredibly difficult to look past our imperfections, given the high expectations set by our family and peers.”
“At times, it can feel like the loneliest place on Earth, because it’s just us. Alone with our unanswered prayers”
Source: Waiting with God: 31 Days to Finding Answers for Unanswered Prayers
“At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.”
“At times it feels like the whole universe is pushing you to do something.”
“At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd”
“At times, it is advisable to release what you cannot control. To let go and release your grip, even when it feels uncomfortable to do so. Focus on what you can control, such as your mind and resting more. The rest will figure itself out or will have to burn down for a blessing that you won’t understand just yet. Stay mentally strong. You will survive.”
“At times it is beneficial for us to renew our pledge to our sovereignty and allegiance to our country while disavowing schizoid polity.”
Source: Tears Before Exaltation
“At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.”
“At times it is not easy for me to take up living again.”
Source: The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin
“At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.”
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“At times it is what we do not say, or not saying a thing, that says a lot about us.”
“At times it may feel hopeless. That life is unforgiving. Breathe. In the hopelessness of life, we find hope and promise. We find strength.”
Source: The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Moon Clearing