quotes about Plunge
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
-- Franz Kafka -
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.
-- Giambattista VicoSource : Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”
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Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.
-- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
-- James Joyce -
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.
-- Joseph Plaskett -
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
-- Julian Barnes -
He was not going to be dragged into other people´s business. He was going to plunge in headfirst.
-- Kate RossSource : Kate Ross (2012). “Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1”, p.49, Felony & Mayhem Press
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Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
-- Matsuo Basho -
Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn’t just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.
-- Maya Banks -
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
-- Peter Mandelson -
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Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
-- Rebecca Solnit -
It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.
-- Victoria Alexander -
But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.
-- Vladimir MayakovskySource : Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.36, Indiana University Press