218 quotes found
“Her hair was full of lights”
“No privacy left. No manners.”
“In chaos, there is fertility.”
“Dreams are necessary to life.”
“What I cannot love, I overlook.”
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over ...”
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
“When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity ...”
“I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the hea...”
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
“And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destro...”
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I dont know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. Th...”
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created h...”
“I dont really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more or...”
“All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.”
“We ought to be much more fearful of what we dont know. We should really be fearful of an unconscious that inhabits us, that guides us, that influences our life and of which we dont know the face an...”
