Karen Essex famous quotes

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.
-- Karen Essex

#Done #Lovers #Honest

I am more human than rational.
-- Karen Essex

#Rational #Humans

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.
-- Karen Essex

#Past #Visiting

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?
-- Karen Essex

#Desire #World #Entanglement

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.
-- Karen Essex

#Sex #Respectable #Anonymity

Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?
-- Karen Essex

#Children #Home #Men

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?
-- Karen Essex

#Children #Men #Giving

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being..

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them