Quotes About Rupture

Pour moi, quand enfin je prendrai la mesure de la rupture, il s'agira d'un déchirement, d'une souffrance très pure. J'ai toujours pensé que c'était moi qui souffrirais le plus. J'ai même considéré que je serais le seul à souffrir.

Pour le lui rappeler toutes les fois que cela sera nécessaire, c'est-à-dire toutes les fois qu'on n'aura pas pu avoir recours à la désignation générique de producteur culturel, choisie, sans plaisir particulier, pour marquer la rupture avec l'idéologie charismatique du « créateur », on fera suivre le mot écrivain de etc.).

du monde commun, à peu près universellement partagé, à la différence des mondes spéciaux, microcosmes fondés, comme l'univers de la littérature ou de la science, sur une rupture avec le sens commun, avec l'adhésion doxique au monde ordinaire.

If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the "dualistic fiction," which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, "degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

There was a complete rupture in my left calf.

Then the universe rocks. The very fabric of reality is rent.

But here—in the midst of this unimaginable loss—is where I found it. The gift in the rupture. Rupture's gift is the chance to feel the pain that we could not afford to feel before. In rupture, this pain becomes ours. Because we have longed. Because we have loved.

Suddenly, I ripped the book in two. And with it my heart. From the tear my insides came running out like a rotten egg. I became an empty, cast-off skin.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

For nothing can be sole or whole. That has not been rent.

Whatever cracks were already there the war forced apart, and what we might otherwise have kept inside came spilling out.

I apparently held a belief that if I expressed my anger, I would destroy our bond forever. The relationship was not ruined; in fact, it was strengthened. But I had no reference, no previous experience to tell me this could be so. I had never dared express my anger at my family and had a marked lack of experience in this process of rupture and repair.

De pronto aparece, porque esas son las reglas del juego, una aguja que revienta la burbuja que se ha estado cuidando como una inocencia: y ya, fin de la tregua.

In contrast, when a coronary artery in your heart is only 30–40 percent blocked, it is more unstable because it's not calcified, and it has not had time to grow a protective network of collaterals. This is why these are called "vulnerable plaques"—because they are more likely to rupture and cause a sudden total obstruction, known as "catastrophic progression," which is as bad as it sounds.

si vous voulez bien convenir que la poésie est la rupture (ou plutôt la rencontre au point de rupture) du visible et de l'invisible

My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles.

God, Alex loved me. He truly did. I just hadn't learned that time is elastic: it stretches and gives, far more graciously than it probably should, and then one day, when you least expect it, something simply ruptures, and you sheltered life is done.

Poetry is a weapon. It is an instrument of social change...and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it demands that you rupture and destabilize the language in which you're working with. Inherently, you are pushing against the status quo. And so for me, it's always existed in that tradition of truth-telling.