356 quotes found
“I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.”
“All kinds of things are happening to me." I begin. ,,Some I choose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell one from the other any more. What I mean is, it feels like everything's been decided in a...”
“If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.”
“There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would...”
“Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.”
“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment, it's frightful, if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing...”
“One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it”
“One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.”
“ The life of the worlds is a roaring river, but Earths is a pond and a backwater. The sign of doom is written on your brows how long will ye kick against the pin-pricks? But there is one conquest ...”
“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
“The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.”
“Life has no meaning a priori It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.”
“I want my name to mean me.”
“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”
“I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind me,and I have followed the source of rivers towards theirsource or plunged into forests, always making for othercities. I have had women, I have f...”
“If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however...”
