“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
| — | Simone Weil |
“In every parting there is an image of death.”
| — | George Eliot |
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
| — | George Eliot |
“What you remember saves you.”
― W. S. Merwin
“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”
| — | Voltaire |
“The
Earth would die
If the sun stopped kissing her.”
| — | Hafiz – The Gif |
“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.”
| — | Federico García Lorca |
“Painting is not an aesthetic operation ; it is a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.”
| — | Pablo Picasso |
“Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.”
| — | James Blanchard |
“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company”
| — | Jean-Paul Sartre |
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
| — | Walter Bagehot |
“The greatest mystery of all is reality.”
| — | Beckman |
“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
| — | Simone de Beauvoir |
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
| — | Albert Camus – The Myth of Sisyphus |
“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”
| — | David Hume |
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
| — | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
“I am an idealist. I do not know where I am going but I am on my way.”
| — | Carl Sandburg |
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are ‘It might have been.’”
| — | Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle |
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
| — | Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
| — | Siddhārtha Gautama |
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but that may well be because we have made fiction to suit ourselves.”
| — | G.K. Chesterton |
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
| — | Ray Bradbury |
