110 Quotes About Familiarity

Do you have darkness inside you?""Yes,""And do you want to be rid of it?"This is a harder question to answer than one might think at first blush. Almost no one would think it's correct to answer this question with a no, but the truth is that we men and women often hate to be rid of the familiar, and sometimes, our darkness is the thing we know the best.

I never wanted to live in that place again, but if for some reason I was forced to live there again, I would never accept the harsh judgments made against me by people whose only power to do so was that they had known me from the moment I was born.

We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves us well in the end. Is that not yet another example of how we enslave ourselves?

Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; you eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness. I had to force myself to look harder and try to see beyond the concept of library that was so latent in my brain.

...their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experience breed. 

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life.

... The armour of others is too wide, or too strait for us; it falls off us, or it weighs us down.