Top 7 Sorting Out Quotes

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged.

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

Helen Prejean

Government, Feelings, Sorting Out

Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.21, Vintage

You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.

Thomas Pynchon

Dream, Past, Sorting Out

Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.140, Penguin

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

Simon Schama

Sorting Out, Stories, Truthful

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Bruce Springsteen

Thinking, Sorting Out, Messages

Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

Terry Pratchett

People, Trying, Sorting Out

There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index.

C. S. Lewis

People, Sorting Out, Cards

C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature”, p.10, Cambridge University Press