Rift Quotes

• Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fall, Ties, Discovery

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• The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Girl, Sex, Teaching

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.581, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

  John Keats

  Artist, Might, Curb

  Letter to Shelley, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 323; echoing Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 7, st. 28, l. 5: 'And with rich metal loaded every rift'

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• Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

  Gerald Kersh

  War, Shining, Navy

  Gerald Kersh (1945). “Sergeant Nelson of the Guards”, J.C. Winston Company

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• It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Silence, Littles

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Merlin and Vivien' (1859) l. 388

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• You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

  Bob Dylan

  Artist, Forgive Me, Poetry

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• Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Joy, Deeds, Knows

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book XII, 29,

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• The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Years, Two, Pages

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• I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Men, Clouds, Sky

  Ernest Shackleton (2004). “South: The Endurance Expedition”, p.149, Penguin

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• It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks

  Peter Fonda

  Two, Long, Parent

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• A pesar de todas las pruebas de que la vida es discontinua, un valle de grietas, y de que el azar desempeña un gran papel en nuestros destinos, seguimos creyendo en la continuidad de las cosas, en la causalidad y el sentido. Pero vivimos en un espejo roto, y cada día aparecen nuevas grietas en su superficie.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Fate, Play

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• Love should be our walk and our talk.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Should, Walks, Divisiveness

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• "El ego es creado por la grieta. Cuando estás luchando, el ego entra; cuando no estás luchando, el ego no puede entrar. El ego es una tensión. Si quieres el ego, divídelo todo lo posible, conviértete en dos personas. Eso es lo que le pasa a mucha gente, eso es lo que le ha pasado a toda la humanidad. Todo el mundo se ha convertido en dos personas: una voz dice "Haz esto", la otra voz dice "No hagas aquello" - entonces surge el ego. De la fricción surge el ego, y el ego es muy intoxicante; te vuelve inconsciente. Este es todo el mecanismo".

  Rajneesh

  Lucha, Dos, Voz

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• Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Hate, Healing, Love Is

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• Lo único que puedo decir es que nos estamos equivocando al abrir una brecha tan profunda en la historia que las cosas que saben los viejos y las viejas se han vuelto tan inútiles que no merece la pena transmitirlas a los nietos.

  Charles Frazier

  Grandchildren, Men, Passing On

  Charles Frazier (2006). "Trece lunas: A Novel", p.412, Random House

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• Load every rift with ore.

  John Keats

  Crafts, Load

  "An introduction to the poetry of John Keats" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.

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• No puede haber esterilidad en pleno verano. La misma arena producirá algo. Las rocas tendrán musgos, y cada grieta tendrá su flor del viento, y cada hendidura una hoja; mientras que del suelo fértil se criará una tropa magnífica de crecimientos, que llevarán su vida en diez mil formas, pero todas con alabanza a Dios. Y así es cuando el alma conoce su verano. El amor redime su debilidad, viste su esterilidad, enriquece su pobreza y hace que su mismo desierto brote y florezca como la rosa.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Amor, Verano, Flor

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Isolation

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• El intelecto es una cuchilla; discierne y se abre camino hasta los secretos de las cosas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Secret, Way

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.50, BookBaby

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• There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.

  Frank O'Hara

  Clouds, Frowning, Faces

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• Pensar en el exilio es extrañamente atractivo, pero vivirlo es terrible. Es la grieta insalvable que se abre entre el ser humano y su lugar de origen, entre el yo y su verdadero hogar: su tristeza esencial nunca puede superarse. Y aunque es cierto que la literatura y la historia contienen episodios heroicos, románticos, gloriosos e incluso triunfantes en la vida de un exiliado, no son más que esfuerzos destinados a superar el dolor paralizante del extrañamiento.

  Edward Said

  Hogar, Tristeza, Pensamiento

  Edward W. Said (2013). "Reflexiones sobre el exilio: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays", p.212, Granta Books.

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• When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  Naomi Benaron

  Running, Stories, Want

  "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.

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• In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.

  Princesa Margarita

  My Sister, Our Family, Jolly

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• The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Europe, America, Gaps

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). "América", p.73, Verso

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• I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

  Brian Evenson

  Real, Escribir, Pensar

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