356 quotes found
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what p...”
“He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.”
“Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.”
“One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measur...”
“For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they...”
“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
“There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.”
“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not ...”
“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore,...”
“His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.”
“All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedie...”
“Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?”
“Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household...”
“The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indef...”
“We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.”
“A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.”
“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.”
“I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I rem...”
“CLOV:Do you believe in the life to come?HAMM:Mine was always that.”
“If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but notbelieved; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upo...”
