English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

John Updike Quotes

John Updike quote: "How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt..."

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

John Updike

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it. Ismail Haniyeh
I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever. Philip K. Dick
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. Muhammad Iqbal
From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America. Louis Finkelstein
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously..."
Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable? J. R. R. Tolkien
Ambrose Bierce quote: "The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff."
The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff. Ambrose Bierce
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. Richard Russo
Powell Clayton quote: "Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens. Powell Clayton
James Thurber quote: "The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the..."
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. James Thurber
David Lloyd George quote: "There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. David Lloyd George
Randy West quote: "It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of..."
It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route. Randy West
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. Virginia Woolf
How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning. Chuck Palahniuk
What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. Robert Scheer
Dallas Willard quote: "There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our..."
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God. Dallas Willard