You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.
I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
I carry the bars within me.
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
Love is a drama of contradictions.
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.
One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.
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