132 quotes found
“The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.”
“Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say theres nothing more difficult than to define a spiral in words; they claim it is necessary to use the unliterary ...”
“That is how I experience life, as apocalypse and cataclysm. Each day brings an increasing inability in myself to make the smallest gesture, even to imagine myself confronting clear, real situations...”
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, howev...”
“Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.”
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images Ive seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known ...”
“The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men”
“everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2. another puts all his efforts into becoming famous so that he'll b remembere...”
“Anonymous > Quotes > Quotable QuoteI see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I dont know where it will take me, because I dont know anything. I coul...”
“It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are philosophies to be gleaned from fools, real les...”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
“All Ive ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing Ive ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I ...”
“Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.”
“And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a piano student keep playing over and over, up and down the phys...”
“Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased ...”
“All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldnt be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.”
“A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing whe...”
“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes. It's the product of the temperament I've ...”
“This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minatu...”
