„The older you get the more you live in the past“
— Walter Mosley American writer 1952
Quelle: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
„The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.“
Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Tanizaki Jun’ichirō7
japanischer Schriftsteller 1886 - 1965Ähnliche Zitate
„The more we think about risk, the more risk seem to be.“
— Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951
Quelle: Take The Risk (2008), p. 58
— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954
Interview on Entertainment Tonight, as quoted in "Oprah Winfrey Offers Words of Wisdom in Wake of Deadly Las Vegas Shooting", KTVB (2 October 2017)
— L. K. Samuels American writer 1951
Quelle: Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020), pp. 215-216
— Katharine Kerr American writer 1944
Kontext: Why do you think nothing concrete and lasting happened out of the 60s? Lots of people have been saying this lately, and I can't help feeling that the changes were so profound and total that no one remembers that there were changes! The 50s, my friends, happened in a different country than this one. We did not get everything we wanted, no. The world is not perfect now, and is that why some of us think we accomplished nothing? … Try to remember what life was like in the 50s. That's all I can say to that. It's the power structures that are trying to pretend that the change wasn't lasting, so they can convince people that protests and the like are futile now.
But they lie. I'm glad to see that many young people aren't buying it.
„I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.“
— Virginia Woolf, buch Jacob's Room
Quelle: Jacob's Room
— Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902
Sparks
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy
Kontext: Everything matters more than we think it does, and, at the same time, nothing matters so much as we think it does. The merest spark may set all Europe in a blaze, but though all Europe be set in a blaze twenty times over, the world will wag itself right again.
— Matt Dillon American actor 1964
Martha Southgate (April 25, 1991) "Matt Dillon grows up and doesn't balk at talk", The Toronto Star, p. C8.
— Thomas Pynchon American novelist 1937
Quelle: Slow Learner: Early Stories
„As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just… get better.“
— Romain Gary, buch Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
Quelle: Au-delà de cette limite votre ticket n'est plus valable
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Variante: ... and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Quelle: Fight Club
„and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Quelle: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
— Yasir Qadhi Pakistani-American preacher and imam 1975
