131 quotes found
“Prayer is listening.”
“Don't forget to love yourself.”
“Hope is a passion for the possible.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
“Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoi...”
“Marry, and you will regret it; dont marry, you will also regret it; marry or dont marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the worlds foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will r...”
“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; ...”
“Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a...”
“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so muc...”
“What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”
“Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out ...”
“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be livedforwards. The more one ponders this, the more it come...”
“For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service of thought”
“No woman in maternity confinement can have stranger and more impatient wishes than I have.”
“But it is just as useless for a man to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals as it is for a cosmic body, thinking to form itself, first of all to decide the natu...”
“Love has many positionings. Cordelia makes good progress. She is sitting on my lap, her arm twines, soft and warm, round my neck; she leans upon my breast, light, without gravity; the soft contours...”
“What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which you rest a moment when you are tired of flying; t...”
“My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to you everywhere that I love you. Oh! Does it weary you to hear this voice? Everywhere it enfolds you...”
“I am pooryou are my riches; darkyou are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own anything? After all, it is a contradiction that he can own something who does not own himself. I a...”
