Marya Mannes - Life Quotes

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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves. The great omission in American life is solitude.

Marya Mannes
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

Marya Mannes
The great omission in American life is solitude…that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes
Euthanasia... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Marya Mannes
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

Marya Mannes
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Marya Mannes
Fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

Marya Mannes
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

Marya Mannes
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

Marya Mannes