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Top 15 Eva Hoffman Quotes (2025 Update)

Eva Hoffman Quote: “The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become – and such lucidity is a form of joy.”

1. “The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become – and such lucidity is a form of joy.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.”

2. “There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.”

3. “Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “The worst losses come at night.”

4. “The worst losses come at night.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won’t.”

5. “The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won’t.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “Perhaps, if we don’t always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.”

6. “Perhaps, if we don’t always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.”

7. “I know that language will be a crucial instrument, that I can overcome the stigma of my marginality, the weight of presumption against me, only if the reassuringly right sounds come out of my mouth.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “Anger can be borne – it can even be satisfying – if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream – building to an impotent, murderous rage.”

8. “Anger can be borne – it can even be satisfying – if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream – building to an impotent, murderous rage.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.”

9. “The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.”

10. “It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.”

11. “The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.”

12. “While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “To be an adult is to be close to death.”

13. “To be an adult is to be close to death.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “The past depends on the angle from which it is seen and from which it has been lived.”

14. “The past depends on the angle from which it is seen and from which it has been lived.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.”

15. “I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “Why look any further if you’ve discovered complete satisfaction.”

16. “Why look any further if you’ve discovered complete satisfaction.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all – because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.”

17. “When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all – because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “A power struggle is always better than absolute power.”

18. “A power struggle is always better than absolute power.”

— Eva Hoffman

Eva Hoffman Quote: “Reading is not a project of moral improvement, but by broadening our perspective, it can make us less susceptible to the immediate seductions offered by our environment; and in the best-case scenarios, it can enlarge the scope of humane understanding, and of empathy.”

19. “Reading is not a project of moral improvement, but by broadening our perspective, it can make us less susceptible to the immediate seductions offered by our environment; and in the best-case scenarios, it can enlarge the scope of humane understanding, and of empathy.”

— Eva Hoffman

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