Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Popular Topics
Brain, Faith, Town, Night, Creative, Life Is Good, Angry, Today, Culture, Air, Willing, Private Life, I Like You, Character, Afternoon, Inspiring, Wonder, Beauty, Dance, Inspiration, Evidence, House, Involve, Bible, Thank You, Religion, Hip Hop, Path Of Love, Philosophy, Journey, Feeling, Thinking, Memorable, Life Is Like, Like, I Miss You, Identity, Organization, Heart, Diamond, Kind, Gossip, Talent, Pleasures Of Life, Goodbye, Happy, Positive, Important, Songs, Love
Diana Trilling

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

Class, Lives, May, Middle, One Day
Same Author Quotes

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

Challenges, Challenging, Destiny, Ducking, Fate

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Forever, Ifs, Life, Our Lives, Squander

Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.

Attention, Design, Pain, Privacy, Profit, Society

My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.

Arrogant, Careers, Intellectually, May, Particularly, Preparing

[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.

Ceased, Common, Death, Loss, Thinking
Similar Quotes