126 quotes found
“The human soul is an abyss”
“To pretend is to know oneself.”
“By day I am nothing, by night I am I.”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
“To be understood is to prostitute oneself”
“If the heart could think it would stop beating.”
“I dont know what understanding myself is. I dont look inside.I dont believe I exist behind myself.”
“There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness”
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
“I suffer from life and from other people. I cant look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connect...”
“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. Th...”
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the c...”
“The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!”
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the de...”
“A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts, and the knowledge of truth is false in its very truth. The leaves' greenness is worth m...”
“Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ou...”
“To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecaus...”
“Everythings different from us. Thats why everything exists.”
“Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they woul...”
“I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
“Ive dreamed a lot. Im tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throug...”
“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
“In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a pers...”
“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.”
