Dimensions Quotes - Page 27

• it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Mysterious, Coincidence

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• It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?

  George Orwell

  Beautiful, Why Not, Body

  George Orwell (1982). “Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four: Text, Sources, Criticism”, Harcourt

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• To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

  David Foster Wallace

  Tourists, Lines, Painful

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

  Anais Nin

  Illumination, Space, Tree

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• Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

  Richard Brautigan

  Vocabulary, Childhood, Feelings

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Spiritual, Character, Drug

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• Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions

  Frantz Fanon

  Europe, Two, America

  Frantz Fanon (1963). “The Damned”

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• Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

  Vera Nazarian

  Appreciation, Fall, Acceptance

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• No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

  Eoin Colfer

  Men, Trying, Males

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Mean, Names, Depth

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• What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Wall, Two, Hair

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jul 25, 2012

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• Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Reality, Law

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• Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

  Stephen Hawking

  Two, Space, Would Be

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

  Diane Setterfield

  Grief, Color, Sorrow

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Dog, Stars, Dust

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.461, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

  Ayn Rand

  Genius, May, Disease

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.290, Penguin

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• She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wall, Fate

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• There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.

  Louis L'Amour

  Lying, Eye, Reflection

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “The Walking Drum”, p.180, Bantam

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• The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Doctors, People

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.

  Isabel Allende

  Journey, Reality, Color

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Beautiful, Home, Ideas

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• Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

  N.D. Wilson

  Running, Epic, Climbing

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• Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Philosophy, Real, Ignorance

  "The Ethics of Ambiguity". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Conclusion, 1947.

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• Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Enlightenment, Ends

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• Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

  Samuel Beckett

  Wall, Nice, Feet

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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