|

|

Advertisements

Doris Grumbach Quotes

Praise requires constant renewal and expansion Picture Quote #1

Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing Picture Quote #1

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems Picture Quote #1

The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them Picture Quote #1

We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence? Picture Quote #1

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

One keeps one’s friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one’s friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time Picture Quote #1

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed Picture Quote #1

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring Picture Quote #1

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose Picture Quote #1

A hand up is worthier than one’s own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder Picture Quote #1

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

Praise requires constant renewal and expansion (Doris Grumbach Quotes) Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing (Doris Grumbach Quotes) My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems (Doris Grumbach Quotes) The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them (Doris Grumbach Quotes) We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence? (Doris Grumbach Quotes) Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow (Doris Grumbach Quotes) One keeps one’s friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one’s friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time (Doris Grumbach Quotes) Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed (Doris Grumbach Quotes) My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring (Doris Grumbach Quotes) Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose (Doris Grumbach Quotes) A hand up is worthier than one’s own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder (Doris Grumbach Quotes)