Quotes About Adaptation

I think the correct expression according to Kathryn would be, 'sit on a pointy stick and twirl around,' or, in other words, 'perch, pivot, and rotate.

I've always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone's affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move.

I try to shed what I've learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember

One needs a certain intellectual courage to recognize unflinchingly that one is no more than a scrap of humanity, a living abortion, a madman not yet crazy enough to be locked up; but, having recognized that, one needs even more spiritual courage to adapt oneself perfectly to one's destiny, to accept without rebellion, without resignation, without a single gesture or attempt at a gesture of protest, the elemental curse nature has laid upon one.

Primeiro estranha-se. Depois entranha-se.

Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life and unfamiliar places. 122

it seems that what's artificial has become natural, and what's natural is now strange. Or rather, it's not that what's artificial has become natural; it's simply that what's natural has changed.

Ah, che errore doloroso e crasso quel distinguo che i rivoluzionari fanno tra borghesia e popolo, tra aristocrazia e popolo o tra governanti e governati. La vera distinzione risiede tra adattati e disadattati: il resto e letteratura e per di più cattiva letteratura. 176 [1929]

Now he is something anyone can be.

Hayata ayak uydurmam?z?n tek yolu, kendimizle uyumsuz olmak.

More things have died in me than just my past.

It takes a certain intellectual courage for a man to frankly recognize that he's nothing more than a human tatter, an abortion that survived, a madman not mad enough to be committed; and once he recognizes this, it takes even more moral courage to devise a way of adapting to his destiny, to accept without protest and without resignation, without any gesture or hint of a gesture, the organic curse imposed on him by Nature.

De tudo, ficaram três coisas: a certeza de que ele estava sempre começando, a certeza de que era preciso continuar e a certeza de que seria interrompido antes de terminar. Fazer da interrupção um caminho novo. Fazer da queda um passo de dança, do medo uma escada, do sono uma ponte, da procura um encontro.

Del deporte, Camus aprendió que la pelota nunca viene hacia uno por donde uno espera que lo haga: eso

Progresar es tanto innovar como conservar lo conseguido.

The Irish Times ran an editorial in 1956, full of dark intimations that the Irish would become like other indigenous peoples who had lost out in the Darwinian struggle for survival: 'What matters is that we will disappear as a composite race. We will add our name or names to those of the races that assimilate us; but as an entity, we will cease to exist.

Es siempre triste mirar a través de ojos nuevos las cosas en que uno ha gastado sus capacidades de adaptación.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition.

I told you you could hang around and work for food, she said, if you don't mind sleeping in that car yonder. Why listen, Lady, he said with a grin of delight, the monks of old slept in their coffins! They wasn't as advanced as we are, the old woman said.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.