It hardly seems fair we'd get the universe all to

It hardly seems fair we'd get the universe all to ourselves...

📖 David Sedaris

🌍 American | 👨‍💼 Writer

🎂 December 26, 1956

(0 Reviews)

Facebook

Twitter

E-mail

Favorites

David Sedaris reflects on the seemingly unequal distribution of the universe in his book "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim," contemplating the luck of being alive and having access to all that exists around us. His thought highlights a sense of wonder and humility about individual existence in the vast cosmos.

This quote evokes a feeling of appreciation for life, suggesting that the sheer enormity of the universe raises questions about fairness and our place within it. Sedaris's humor and insight prompt readers to consider the complexities of existence and the randomness of fortune.

Page views
1

Update
February 08, 2025

Report
Report a Problem

Rate the Quote

Add Comment & Review

User Reviews

Based on 0 reviews

5 Star

4 Star

3 Star

2 Star

1 Star

No reviews added yet.

Add Comment & Review

Your Name: *

Comment Title: *

Your E-mail: * We'll never share your email with anyone else.

Your Comment: *

Your Rating: *

Comments will not be approved to be posted if they are SPAM, abusive, off-topic, use profanity, contain a personal attack, or promote hate of any kind.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I...

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

I told myself that if I looked at my brother differently, it was because of the suit, nto the weight. He was a grown man now. He was going to get married, and therefore, he was a changed person.He...

but things change once you've been together for 10 years. They rarely make movies about long-term couples and for good reason. Our lives are boring.

Me: Did you get your tree yet? Ken: I'm a Jew, I don't decorate Christmas trees. Me: So you're going to go with a wreath instead? Ken: I just told you, I'm a Jew. Me: Oh, I get it. You're looking for...

It hardly seems fair we'd get the universe all to ourselves...

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating - - something that shattered your self - confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to...

Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating - - something that shattered your self - confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to pieces or shoved it out of sight for years - - I don't care how you got here. Every day you are stronger. Every day you are healing. Every day that you survive, you are telling that event, that person, that illness, that memory: YOU DO NOT DEFINE ME. Keep on. - - Acknowledgements

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

You don't know what you are.

Today Birthdays

1952 - Orhan Pamuk 1935 - Harry Crews 1968 - Sara Sheridan 1974 - Bear Grylls 1958 - Prince 1965 - Damien Hirst 1990 - Iggy Azalea 1959 - Mike Pence 1968 - Sarah Parish 1993 - George Ezra 1938 - Ian St. John 1912 - Robert A. Cook 1972 - Karl Urban 1990 - Fetty Wap

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end,...

Categories »

📖 David Sedaris

Rate the Quote

User Reviews

Other quotes in Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Other quotes in book quote

Today Birthdays

Popular quotes

Categories