580 quotes found
“How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.”
“The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman t...”
“I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.”
“Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.”
“Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.”
“Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture ones fellow man, or merely say evil of ones neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.”
“In a certain sense it might well be said that his was an exemplary life. He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he ...”
“If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkne...”
“He was one of those rare people, rare in our town as elsewhere, who have the courage of their good feelings. What little he told of his personal life vouched for acts of kindness and a capacity for...”
“For him, too, starting over, departures, a new life had a certain luster, but he knew that only the impotent and the lazy attach happiness to such things. Happiness implied a choice, and within tha...”
“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”
“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
“We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant ...”
“The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify th...”
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.”
“If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.”
“Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious pract...”
“Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.”
“...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the ...”
