Vicarious Quotes

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.”
― Lavinia Spalding

“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way
to feel alive.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.”
― Ashok Kallarakkal

“I could have something like an encounter out there – a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didn’t know how to process.”
― Drew Nellins Smith, Arcade

“When she looked at it from a distance, she saw how absurd her plan was: a meaningful cookbook from Molly Babcock? It was like trying to make potatoes dauphine from a Mr. Potato Head.
And Isabella would've arrived at this conclusion, would've understood this point eventually, if it hadn't been for the trip to New Jersey and the discovery of Molly's mother. Candy Babcock, with her collection of recipes and little notes to herself and articles that she clipped, had all of the depth, the culinary point of view, the hard-won kitchen knowledge that Molly lacked. Candy had something real to say about food, something important: it came from a lifetime of making it, thanklessly, for a husband and daughter who clearly took it all for granted.
And that triggered something in Isabella. The farther she drove through the mountains, the more she realized that the ghost of Candy Babcock had inhabited her that day in the basement of Molly's childhood home. After that, Isabella's job was no longer to facilitate Molly's vision, of which there was very little; her job was to vindicate the life of a woman who had lived in the shadows, whose passions went uncelebrated, whose contributions went unrecognized. A woman, it turned out, who was a lot like Isabella.”
― Adam D. Roberts, Food Person