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Top 15 Sy Safransky Quotes (2025 Update)

Sy Safransky Quote: “The comment is abrupt, uncalled for, yet clearly important for him to get across, a way of naming himself, turning out his pockets, the way others let on in a hurry that they know Christ, or where to get cocaine.”

1. “The comment is abrupt, uncalled for, yet clearly important for him to get across, a way of naming himself, turning out his pockets, the way others let on in a hurry that they know Christ, or where to get cocaine.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “Every revolution evaporates,” said Kafka, “leaving behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.” This is true not only of governments, but of individuals: the moment of realization, of inspiration, becomes institutionalized, trivialized.”

2. “Every revolution evaporates,” said Kafka, “leaving behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.” This is true not only of governments, but of individuals: the moment of realization, of inspiration, becomes institutionalized, trivialized.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “The bed becomes your church; you pass the collection plate back and forth until you’ve given too much, then your poverty becomes your gift... And though, in days or months or years to come, you’ll swear you were fooling yourself, you weren’t; it really happened... above you for a moment hovered the dove.”

3. “The bed becomes your church; you pass the collection plate back and forth until you’ve given too much, then your poverty becomes your gift... And though, in days or months or years to come, you’ll swear you were fooling yourself, you weren’t; it really happened... above you for a moment hovered the dove.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “How mysteriously alone we are! How tempting to imagine that if we’re loved, our loneliness will be dispelled.”

4. “How mysteriously alone we are! How tempting to imagine that if we’re loved, our loneliness will be dispelled.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “My deepest gratitude goes to those we’ve quoted – men and women who labored long and hard to express in a few words a lifetime of experience; others who rarely wrote but paused in the middle of a busy life or a sleepless night with pen in hand, who wept and found a way to make of their suffering a gift, who laughed and found a way to make us laugh, too.”

5. “My deepest gratitude goes to those we’ve quoted – men and women who labored long and hard to express in a few words a lifetime of experience; others who rarely wrote but paused in the middle of a busy life or a sleepless night with pen in hand, who wept and found a way to make of their suffering a gift, who laughed and found a way to make us laugh, too.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “We forget what missiles our words are, how much damage we can cause with one thoughtless comment between the coffee and the toast.”

6. “We forget what missiles our words are, how much damage we can cause with one thoughtless comment between the coffee and the toast.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “We’re an odd match. Imagine Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson; imagine night and day. George has built nuclear reactors and believes in them fiercely. We stay away from this and other subjects the way I’d stay away from Three Mile Island. After all, I have plenty of friends who share my most impassioned opinions; we can have an orgy of agreement any day at the natural foods restaurant, over a sprout sandwich. But he’s the one out here helping.”

7. “We’re an odd match. Imagine Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson; imagine night and day. George has built nuclear reactors and believes in them fiercely. We stay away from this and other subjects the way I’d stay away from Three Mile Island. After all, I have plenty of friends who share my most impassioned opinions; we can have an orgy of agreement any day at the natural foods restaurant, over a sprout sandwich. But he’s the one out here helping.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “I’ve cried out, and my cry has been answered – but life, with all its contradictions and ambiguities, hasn’t ended there. The thirsty man drinks and gets thirsty again.”

8. “I’ve cried out, and my cry has been answered – but life, with all its contradictions and ambiguities, hasn’t ended there. The thirsty man drinks and gets thirsty again.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “It was easy to see that I was recreating my painful history every time I talked about it.”

9. “It was easy to see that I was recreating my painful history every time I talked about it.”

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Sy Safransky Quote: “In that dark chamber of my heart, where I confuse being right with being loved...”

10. “In that dark chamber of my heart, where I confuse being right with being loved...”

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Sy Safransky Quote: “Each piece was a struggle between the editor – who insisted on the polished phrase, the line that would live forever – and the writer, an ordinary man with something ordinary to say, something sentimental and unremarkable, not quite good enough.”

11. “Each piece was a struggle between the editor – who insisted on the polished phrase, the line that would live forever – and the writer, an ordinary man with something ordinary to say, something sentimental and unremarkable, not quite good enough.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “For what are most of our stories but cartoon versions of the past? Our personal history is the well-worn version of ourselves we’ve settled for, in which we come across as pitiful stick figures, “bored to death with ourselves and with the world,” as don Juan said.”

12. “For what are most of our stories but cartoon versions of the past? Our personal history is the well-worn version of ourselves we’ve settled for, in which we come across as pitiful stick figures, “bored to death with ourselves and with the world,” as don Juan said.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “To respect people is one thing; to raise them up on a pedestal merely shows how deep a hole I’ve dug for myself... True humility lies in forgiving myself for being so perplexingly human, and forgiving others for pretending they’re any less human than I.”

13. “To respect people is one thing; to raise them up on a pedestal merely shows how deep a hole I’ve dug for myself... True humility lies in forgiving myself for being so perplexingly human, and forgiving others for pretending they’re any less human than I.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it’s either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.”

14. “We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it’s either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.”

— Sy Safransky

Sy Safransky Quote: “It’s like resenting a mountain. From the very beginning they were closer. It was part of the unquestioned landscape of my childhood.”

15. “It’s like resenting a mountain. From the very beginning they were closer. It was part of the unquestioned landscape of my childhood.”

— Sy Safransky

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