Quotes: Favorites Quotes: Author Quotes: Topics Quotes: Collection Sig Services Blueprint Results Process Contact
Background Image
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.
-Marisha Pessl
Please Wait....
Translating....

I Was Aware Too How Strange Adults

Marisha Pessl
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.
Views: 15
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Sea Adults Desert

More From Marisha Pessl

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. achievement is its cancellation. to be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. the vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
Power Achievement Growth
Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,in the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!
Wall Lying Heart
There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. it's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.
Morning Cities Two
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." this is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. when you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. we are all sandless. we are all ignorant. there are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.
Beach Knowing People
The sea of galilee and the dead sea are made of the same water. it flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of herman and the roots of the cedars of lebanon. the sea of galilee makes beauty of it, the sea of galilee has an outlet. it gets to give. it gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the jordan plain. but the dead sea with the same water makes horror. for the dead sea has no outlet. it gets to keep.
Life Beauty Death
This is my life now. absurd, but unpredictable. not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. if i have lost the meaning of my life, i might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.
Might Absurd Lost
Similar Quotes
Anybody that i ever dealt with knows that i'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what i do, you might have to play the back burner to that.
Play Might Individual
I'd always assumed i was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me i might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
Character Stories Might
If i suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see hikaru utada working as a helper at some inn in atami.
World Might Disappear
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.
Hands Might Void

Trending Author

Jean Houston
Jean Houston
Kathryn Minshew
Kathryn Minshew
Terry Goodkind
Terry Goodkind
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn
Grace Paley
Grace Paley
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation
Quote AI Helper
Hello! I'm your AI assistant. Ask me anything about quotes or authors!