Jenny Diski quotes

“Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.”
-- Jenny Diski

#Time Quotes

“It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.”
-- Jenny Diski

Source : Jenny Diski (2013). “Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions”, p.268, Picador

#Attitude Quotes #Important Quotes #World Quotes

“But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.”
-- Jenny Diski

#Thinking Quotes #Effort Quotes #Brave Quotes

“We were greeted by the minister whose inclusive, non-judgemental smile was no more than a whisker away from a smirk. Have I made it clear? I don't like belief systems and even less like those that peddle self-righteousness. I have no doubt the minister was a sincere man, but I am not as impressed by the idea of sincerity as the sincere seem to be.”
-- Jenny Diski

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Statistics are designed to keep you safe.”
-- Jenny Diski

Source : 1997 Skating to Antarctica.

#Safe Quotes #Statistics Quotes

“For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.”
-- Jenny Diski

Source : 1997 Skating to Antarctica.

#Littles Quotes #Quantum Quotes #Theory Quotes

“There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.”
-- Jenny Diski

#Cheating Quotes #Artist Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“There are some words I find impossibly difficult ... 'Love,' 'feeling' and especially 'happiness' are at the head of the list. This is not because I haven't experienced any of them but because whenever I think about using the words I don't really know what anyone means by them. I'd find it easier to sit down and write a book about each (coming, obviously, to no conclusion) than to use them casually in speech or writing.”
-- Jenny Diski

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope.”
-- Jenny Diski

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.”

“The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.”

“Enjoy the present hour, Be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (2013). “Cowley's Essays”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

“His time's forever, everywhere his place.”

“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.11

“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.”

“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”

“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”

“Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.”

“Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.”