316 quotes found
Writer · English · 1959
English writer (born 1959)
“The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about m...”
“The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.”
“I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.”
“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, ...”
“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.”
“They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?”
“Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.”
“I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.”
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end,...”
“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.”
“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
“Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space...”
“He: Whats the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they ...”
“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”
“I did not realise that when money becomes the core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life or the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That ...”
“There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It wont complain. ”
“your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play ...”
“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I dont want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back...”
“I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.”
“The free man never thinks of escape.”
