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Daniel Keyes Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being—one of many ways—and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Choices, decision, Fate, Paths
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Life Quotes, Make the Most of Your Life, Worrying
“There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.”
— Daniel Keyes, Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey
Tagged: Friendship, Happiness
“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Life
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Perfect Words, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Nowadays every time we see each other, after I leave you I go home with the miserable feeling that I’m slow and dense about everything. I review things I’ve said, and come up with all the bright and witty things I should have said, and I feel like kicking myself because I didn’t mention them when we were together.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Unsaid Things, Regrets
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I’ve discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Tagged: Intelligence, Ideologies, Beliefs, Giving, selfishness
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