1. People
    2.  › 
  2. Daniel Coffeen
Daniel Coffeen photo

Daniel Coffeen Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“It is a language that has at once come and will never come, a language we're always already speaking and will never speak.”
— Daniel Coffeen, Drape and Drift: On Marc Lafia's "In What Language to Come"
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, What Remains In Suspension, Languages of the Unsayable, Empty Messianic Posturing
“Romantic love is seductive. Like any good drug, it enraptures. It takes you up and carries you away. Your heart beats faster; your veins course with joy itself; you're giddy and smiley and all is right with the world.”
— Daniel Coffeen, Holding Tightly, Holding Lightly: Thoughts on Love & Relationships
Tagged: Love, romance, How Love Feels
“Sometimes, I do want to feel sober — serious, quiet, reserved. Sometimes, however, I want to be delirious.”
— Daniel Coffeen, What Is Sobriety?
Tagged: Sober, Drugs, Delirious
“I want to say that to know something, to really know it and not just know of it, is to go with it. To know, then, is not to know about something but to know with something, to be moved with that thing.”
— Daniel Coffeen, Knowing Things
Tagged: Knowing
“Fuck opportunity. This moment right now is beautiful and perfect. It’s not an opportunity. It’s already happening whether you like it or not — so you might as well like it.”
— Daniel Coffeen, Don’t Try To Be Happy
Tagged: Opportunity, Happiness, The way forward, Quote of the Moment
“Things have their ways. They speak to us. They nudge us. Things live amongst us. Or, more properly put, we live amongst them. When I look at something, at anything, that thing quite literally fills my body. To perceive is to be affected. It is silly to think that we have some soul, some being, that is free from the life of things, that is somehow better than, or disengaged with, the materiality of things.”
— Daniel Coffeen, The Life of Things
Tagged: Things, Interaction, Philosophy
“High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and vitality, with vim, vigor, and brewing lust — these kids are working at old age homes, cramming for tests, popping Adderall just to make the literal and proverbial grade. And for what? So they can go to a school that puts them in debt for the rest of their lives. School has become a great vehicle of capitalism: it quashes the revolution implicit in adolescence while simultaneously fomenting perpetual indebtedness.”
— Daniel Coffeen, The Scholastic Swindle: Quashing Adolescence
Tagged: Debt, Capitalism, Teenage Wildlife, Youth, High Scool, Standardized
loading next page...