43 quotes found
“On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.”
“Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.Each thing only reminds us of what it isAnd its only what nothing else is.The fact that its it separates it from every other ...”
“I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.”
“That thing over there was more there than its there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesnt exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams m...”
“Im in no hurry: the sun and the moon arent, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, Im not there in an instant.”
“Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”
“Im in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon arent in a hurry: theyre right.Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.No; I dont know how t...”
“Waters water and thats why its beautiful.”
“It’s an already inside outside,The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.”
“She’s a manner of speaking.Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, b...”
“I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.”
“And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thu...”
“Live, you say, in the present;Live only in the present.But I don’t want the present, I want reality;I want things that exist, not time that measures them.What is the present?It’s something relative...”
“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t ...”
“I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)”
“Something changed in part of reality — my knees and my hands.What science has knowledge for this?The blind man goes on his way and I don’t make any more gestures.It’s already not the same time, or ...”
“Night doesn’t fall for my eyesBut my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.Beyond my thinking and having any thoughtsThe night falls concretelyAnd the shining of stars exists like it had w...”
“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.”
“Yes: I exist inside my body.I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a ...”
“I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing,To not ever feel myself living,To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.”
