Quotes About Responsibility

Anxiety,' Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, 'is the dizziness of freedom.

A handful of people, working at a handful of technology companies, through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today . . . I don't know a more urgent problem than this . . . It's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships that we want with each other.' —Tristan Harris, former Google employee

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.

It's not you. It's them. (No, really. It is.)

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching news.

Be alive. That is your supreme duty to the world.

I've let people down. I haven't always been easy. I've done things I regret. I was a bad wife. Not always a good mother, either. People have given up a little on me, and I don't entirely blame them.

Free will might be overrated. 'Anxiety,' Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, 'is the dizziness of freedom.

Mornings were hard on Earth. You woke up tireder than when you went to sleep. Your back ached. Your neck ached. Your chest felt tight with anxiety that came from being mortal. And then, on top of all that, you had to do so much before the day even started.

I regret my financial mismanagement.

Everything weighed down on her. The small rituals of her daily existence—filling the dishwasher, picking up from school, cooking—had all been performed as if underwater.

most people don't want to be free. Because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The American president is a motherfucker.

inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon)

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

Do you ever think 'how did I end up here'? Like you are in a maze and totally lost and it's all your fault because you were the one who made every turn?... Do you? Or is this maze just for me?

We are being taught to think of a time different to the time we are in. Exam time. Job time. When-we-are-grown-up time.

Life isn't simply made of the things we do, but the things we don't do too.

Well, you don't see yourself as a bad cat owner any more. You looked after him as well as he could have been looked after.

It was then I realized that the one thing worse than having a dog hate you is having a dog love you. Seriously, if there was a needier species in the universe, I have yet to meet it.

killing is not a stone you throw away, it is a boomerang that comes back and gets you on the head.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

When you watch the news and see members of your species in turmoil, do not think there is nothing you can do. But know it is not done by watching the news.

Because life isn't simply made of the things we do, but the things we don't do too.