“It is only by poets that the life of any epoch can be synthesized.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 83
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.”
“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”
“Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body.”
“Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.”
“Everything that ever gets done in this world is done by madmen.”
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
“I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.”
“If you don't know what happened behind you, you've no idea of what is happening around you.”
“Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
“Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker, and so you can stand less and less.”
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
“The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe.”
“I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read.”
“There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.”
“Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own.”