top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Writing quotes
"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Wondering leads to writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every great writer is a great reader."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Jacques Derrida
"Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school."
Writing
"I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior."
Time
"Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides."
Writing
"These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try."
Writing
"In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it."
Dream
"In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays."
Philosophy
"I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous."
Being
"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
Desire
"The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages."
Media
"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
Experience
bottom of page