What am I doing here in this endless winter?
There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
Only the moment counts. It determines life.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and 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.
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
The truth is always an abyss.
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