Diversion Quotes

“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.”
― Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems

“If this was the plan, what was the point to trying to smuggle in those lockpicks?” Wylan asked.

Kaz folded his arms. “Ever hear about the dying man whose medik told him he’d been miraculously cured? He danced into the street and was trampled to death by a horse. You have to let the mark feel like he’s won. Were the guards studying Matthias and wondering if he looked familiar? Were they looking for trouble when Jesper went into the showers with paraffin sloughing off his arms? No, they were too busy congratulating themselves on catching me. They thought they’d neutralized the threat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.”
― Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

“Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake.”
― Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds

“Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.”
― Northern Adams, Mickey and the Gargoyle

“The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“The Cavaliere has retired to his study and reads, trying not to think about what is going on around him -- one of the principal uses of a book.”
― Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

“Diversion weakens thy mind.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Here, you carry these. I may need my hands free.

Why the hell are we taking ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber?’ Light reading, if we get stuck on the subway?

No, in case we get stopped by some of Qing Song’s minions who can’t read Chinese.

Oh. Right. Hey, that’s not a bad thought. Though if we’re going to be throwing them away anyhow, why not take ‘The Investiture of the Gods’...

Because I like ‘The Investiture of the Gods’ and I don’t like ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Lost Plot

“If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it. (12)”
― Blaise Pascal, Great Ideas Human Happiness

“Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they’re bigger and stronger each time they return. Stop shoving us depressives in that direction.”
― Northern Adams, Mickey and the Gargoyle

“mr. makepeace, do you really turn lead into gold?"
"no, of course not. no one can do that. but if people think you're foolish enough to try, they don't bother to look at what you're really doing. they leave you in peace.”
― Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford

“The ‘easy way’ is our laziness trying to find a solution by ‘working hard’ to side-step the problem.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Diversion is pernicious to depressives. Our lives are like waking dreams--correction, nightmares--where monsters chase us, never breaking off pursuit in order to rest or to eat or to look for easier prey. Diversion prevents us from confronting those monsters. If we never confront them, we have no hope of ever defeating them. Diversion does NOT work.”
― Northern Adams, Mickey and the Gargoyle

“The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothing--nothing at all.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin

“Create a better idea of what the key should be. One that makes more sense to people, so that they believe in the diversion we create.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor

“Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question:
“Where do we go from here?”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

“You watch one after another of the ubiquitous, hyper-argumentative talk shows that fill your television, aware that in their fury they make politics a game, diverting public attention rather than focusing it. But that suits you perfectly. Diversion is, after all, what you seek.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“The longing for a man, as you know, is a grand escape. It can arch your mental process to extremes so that, like a gymnast or a ballerina, you’re contorted to such outrageous limits – I’m speaking of passion – that nothing else matters. I wanted this. I desired diversion.”
― Vicki Covington

“Estar triste no es aburrirse. Yo estoy triste, pero me la paso bien.”
― Albert Camus, The Possessed

“Take diversion is the best way for away from all problems.”
― Inventor Pradhap

“Time feels interminable when you're mired in regrets. Ramsey is my diversion.”
― Peter Tieryas, Mecha Samurai Empire

“The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.”
― Phaedrus

“Try not to take a diversion, in every direction you shall witness a similar version”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“I've heard that entertainment is a cure for being tired and for being wide awake as well.”
― Joanna Ruocco, Dan

“Diversions and detours of our grandest designs only serve to bolster our need to be in the places that we’re vigorously trying to walk away from.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Music is usually played as a protest against silence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We live today in the grand age of diversion, and the reasons why are obvious. With our economic prosperity, our high-tech devices and the cornucopia of entertainment pressing for our attention, we can surround ourselves with diversion from the cradle to grave. We do not focus our attention on anything for long. We do not ask what 'the good life' is and what it requires. Happiness is a small circle, and it is no surprise that the last thing on most people's minds at any moment is the question of the meaning of life, the coming of death and the priorities that are needed to choose wisely. What Socrates call the 'unexamined life' that is 'not worth living' now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

“Distractions mimic achievements.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough