356 quotes found
“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-”
“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world.But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like w...”
“Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazi...”
“Sweet Pocket, you mustn’t ask about my life before I came here. What I am now, I have always been, and everything I am is here with you.” “Sweet Thalia,” said I. “That is a fiery flagon of dragon t...”
“You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.”
“Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!”
“Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.”
“There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.”
“I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant ...”
“For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.”
“It’s important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing ou...”
“Confidence is being able to say ‘Fuck you, I’m the shit’ without opening your mouth, say it with your walk, with your smile, say it with your entire being.”
“Just look around! This immense universe is functioning so perfectly well that nothing can be added to it. It needs no improvement. Seeing this, one relaxes. If stars can go on dancing and flowers c...”
“Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.”
“I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.”
“Imagine that every man’s mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be...”
“In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being into message' (more commonly, 'linguistic turn'). 'Being tha...”
“We are disposable tonight. We are regrettable tonight. We can’t touch one another without the world imploding, tonight.”
“love is not a race 1st 2nd 3rd....Love Is Only LoVE ,It come From Inside and Love Is Being In us!!!!”
“He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.”
