Antiquities Quotes

“The oasis is always over the next hill. And the next hill is always more of the same desert.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Antiquities

“Certainly I favor tradition; I am aware that ancestral decorum ought not to be scorned. The aberrant is to be shunned. Life’s fundamental rhythms depend on sameness, not deviation. All this I long ago learned from my mother.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Antiquities

“I think incessantly of death, of oblivion, how nothing lasts, not even memory when the one who remembers is gone.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Antiquities