82 Quotes

“France was at peace; one couldn't shoot the bearers of bad news.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

“30,000 mornings, give or take, is all we're given.”
― Dan Zadra, The 7 Book: How Many Days of the Week Can be Extraordinary?

“Hoewel hij het bijna voortdurend betreurde dat hij zichzelf was, verwarde hij zichzelf nooit met het probleem. De wereld was het probleem. Die paste niet. Maar hoe vaak zou er ooit iemand gelukkiger zijn geworden door het laakbaarheidsrecord van de wereld te verbeteren?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

“The alarm signals have echoed without being heard, as in a forgotten cave. Already in 1994, the eminent dialectical biologist Richard Levins and his colleagues warned that 'creating new habitats - for example, by bulldozing forests - permit rare or remote microorganisms to become abundant and gain access to people.”
― Andreas Malm, Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century