The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
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.
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
I carry the bars within me.
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.
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.
I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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.
Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
Love is a drama of contradictions.
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
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.
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