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Undoing Quotes (page 2)

Theodore Roethke quote: "Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's..."
Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. Theodore Roethke
Emily Giffin quote: "In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and..."
In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance. Emily Giffin
How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" ....these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us up and cause war, grief, and suffering. People follow different paths, straight or crooked, according to their temperament, depending on which they consider best, or most appropriate -- and all reach You, just as rivers enter the ocean. Elizabeth Gilbert
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the unspeakable promise of their death, for by their birth she had created mortal beings. Louise Erdrich
Virginia Woolf quote: "But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing. Virginia Woolf
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand -- and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and... Charles Bukowski
All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden
...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters Gunter Grass
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibilityof being unable to undo what one has doneis the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself. Hannah Arendt
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me. Bram Stoker
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. That's why we've lowered the kindergarten age year after year until now we're almost snatching them from the cradle. Ray Bradbury
To arrive at sex, you first have to undo the zip of the girl's dress. And between zip and sex lay a process in which twenty- maybe thirty- subtle decisions and judgements had to be made Haruki Murakami
I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done. Kate DiCamillo
Nikos Kazantzakis quote: "Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo..."
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble. Nikos Kazantzakis

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