Rupture famous quotes

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
-- Alain Badiou

#Rupture #Resistance #Oneself

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
-- Ayad Akhtar

#Self #World #Rupture

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.
-- Georges Bataille

#Tears #Rupture #Limits

Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.
-- Jhonen Vasquez

#Thinking #Differences #Rupture

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.
-- Julio Cortazar

#Order #Rupture #Surprise

I'm about to rupture something," he was informed, as the big, gaily wrapped box she was carrying smacked into the small of his back again. She had an uncanny ability to hit the same spot every time.
-- Karen Chance

#Rupture #Uncanny #Boxes

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.
-- Michel Martelly

#Past #People #Rupture

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
-- Shoshana Zuboff

#World #Rupture #Awareness

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
-- Spider Robinson

#Two Sides #Rupture #Threatening

The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.
-- William Kentridge

#Understanding #World #Rupture

I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
-- William Shirley

#Rupture #Way #Weakness

Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in both senses) of instant reaction; so divisive, it makes Brexit, the Labour leadership and the US Presidential election seem lesser ruptures.
-- David Bennun

#Years #Presidential #Rupture

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.
-- Rosalind E. Krauss

#Reality #Fabric #Rupture