Gwen John famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
-- Gwen John

#Reality
To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.
-- Gwen John

#Suffering #Passionate #Violence
I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.
-- Gwen John

#Thinking #Vision #Degrees
I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.
-- Gwen John

#Mirrors #Drawing #Painting
When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.
-- Gwen John

#Children #Cry #Used
In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.
-- Gwen John

#Talking #People #Shadow

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.
Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Gwen John famous quotes

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