Hannah famous quotes

It's made me want to find a hole in the world, in the shape of me, and just fill it up
-- Hannah

#World #Shapes #Want

I don't even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I'm the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me.
-- Hannah

#Sex #Thinking #World

Look at us talking blood and gore like we're on a date sharing our first sexual experience.
-- Hannah

#Talking #Blood #Firsts

There is no i in team, but there is no team without individuals.
-- Hannah

#Teamwork #Team #Individual

This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself.
-- Hannah

#Men #Years #Wish

Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a sure sign of slavishness. Courage therefore became the political virtue par excellence.
-- Hannah

#Love Life #Political #Risk

The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.
-- Hannah

#Mean #Men #Opposites

Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.
-- Hannah

#Thinking #Men #Common Sense

I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation.
-- Hannah

#Thinking #Voice #Generations

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.
-- Hannah

#People #Evil #Temptation

And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations - as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world - we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.
-- Hannah

#Numbers #Race #People

There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.
-- Hannah

#Regret #People #Facts

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
-- Hannah

#World #Wilderness #Hermits

To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.
-- Hannah

#Witness

To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death.
-- Hannah

#Mean #Events #Alive

When I step into the batters box and hear my team say my name and they all cheer for me i feel as if i need to hit the ball for them! Softball is life and nothing comes before it
-- Hannah

#Softball #Cheer #Team

It's like, 'Sorry I passed you an STD but I really enjoy your quirky web presence.'
-- Hannah

#Sorry #Quirky #Stds

No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably in the last half hour!
-- Hannah

#Hate #Mean #Thinking

I have been dating someone that treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me.
-- Hannah

#Heart #Dating #Half

The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.
-- Hannah

#Responsibility #Men #Political

There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our century, it should have been this seemingly small and unimportant Jewish problem that had the dubious honor of setting the whole infernal machine in motion.
-- Hannah

#Political #Honor #Facts

Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.
-- Hannah

#Sky #May

What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.
-- Hannah

#Shields #Form #Aggressive

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.
-- Hannah

#Two #Solitude #Arise

The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.
-- Hannah

#Law #Land #America

What in thinking only occasionally and quasi-metaphorically happens, to retreat from the world of appearances, takes place in aging and dying as an appearance… in this sense thinking is an anticipation of dying (ceasing, ‘to cease to be among men’) just as action in the sense of ‘to make a beginning’ is a repetition of birth.
-- Hannah

#Men #Thinking #Dying

In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one’s own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them.
-- Hannah

#Mean #Self #Alive

I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time.
-- Hannah

#Scared #Okay

Do you know that part on your resume where they ask if you have any special skills? Well, it's the thing where they ask you to list like, 'yoga, Spanish, water skiing, Photoshop.' I feel like I don't have any special skills.
-- Hannah

#Yoga #Skills #Water

I realize I'm not different. I want what everyone wants. I want what they all want. I want all the things. I just want to be happy.
-- Hannah

#Different #Want #Realizing

I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they're just losers.
-- Hannah

#Guy #Way #Loser

I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me.
-- Hannah

#Care #Want #Feels

None of the participants ever arrived at a clear understanding of the actual horror of Auschwitz, which is of a different nature from all the atrocities of the past, because it appeared to prosecution alike as not much more than the most horrible pogrom in Jewish history.
-- Hannah

#Past #Understanding #Atrocities

The worst stuff that you say sounds better than the best stuff that some other people say
-- Hannah

#People #Sound #Stuff

Am I seriously the only one of us who prides herself on being a truly authentic person?
-- Hannah

#Pride #Persons

What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?
-- Hannah

#Ghana #Leader #Movement

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
-- Hannah

#Answers #May #Moral