top of page
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute

"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."

Standard 
 Customized
"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."

Exlpore more World quotes

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Tis not too late to seek a newer world."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes."

Quote_1.png
Akiroq Brost

"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."

Explore more quotes by Nathalie Sarraute

Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."
Quote_1.png
Nathalie Sarraute
"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
bottom of page