Quotes by Romanian Authors

The difference between christians and non christians is not their sins, but their sens.
Alin Sav
Who can believe in illusion even if we all live the Illusion of Life?
Sorin Cerin
Who can say that he is not everything?
Sorin Cerin
You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
Sorin Cerin
Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain?
Sorin Cerin
Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.
Sorin Cerin
No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life.
Sorin Cerin
Do not be to yourself more that God may be to you.
Sorin Cerin
We can never succeed in knowing our own self without holidays and anniversaries.
Sorin Cerin
Heroes are the saints of every nation.
Sorin Cerin
Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death.
Sorin Cerin
No one can be alone when he befriends with the forgotten stranger inside him.
Sorin Cerin
Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love.
Sorin Cerin
Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.
Sorin Cerin
We are a being only through our Illusion of Life.
Sorin Cerin
We will never be more than we are meant to be!
Sorin Cerin
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
Nadia Comaneci
Fashion exists for women with no taste etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Rumania
No one can keep his griefs in their prime they use themselves up.
E. M. Cioran
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugène Ionesco
Tis the ignorant who boast.
Carmen Sylva
An individual dies ... when instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being he cowers within and takes refuge there.
E. M. Cioran
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
Ely Culbertson
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."
E. M. Cioran
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
Ely Culbertson
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."
E. M. Cioran
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."
E. M. Cioran
Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Let us not be needlessly bitter certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
E. M. Cioran
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves my unexploited resources perhaps my future.
E. M. Cioran
Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.
E. M. Cioran
You can only predict things after they've happened.
Eugène Ionesco
The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg
Doodling is the brooding of the hand.
Saul Steinberg
Nothing's far when one wants to get there.
Queen Marie of Rumania
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.
Eugène Ionesco
Nothing is incidental.
Pocan Ioan Valentin
Nothing is mightier than our why, nothing stands above it, because in the end there is a why to which no answer is possible. In fact, from why to why, from one step to the next, you get to the end of things. And it is only by travelling from one why to the next, as far as the why that is unanswerable, that man attains the level of the creative principle, facing the infinite, equal to the infinite maybe. So long as he can answer the why he gets lost, he loses his way among things. 'Why this?' I answer, 'because that," and from one explanation to the next I reach the point where no explanation is satisfying, from one explanation to the next I reach zero, the absolute, where truth and falsehood are equivalent, become equal to one another, are identified with one another, cancel each other out in face of the absolute nothing. And so we can understand how all action, all choice, all history is justified, at the end of time, by a final cancelling-out. The why goes beyond everything. Nothing goes beyond the why, not even the nothing, because the nothing is not the explanation; when silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate why, that great why is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out, there is nothing more to make out.
Eugène Ionesco
Be the leader that doesn´t need a title to be followed.
Alin Sav
If you are good follower, you have the same importance as a good leader.
Alin Sav
Love cares about you. Leadership carries you.
Alin Sav
Leaders are intentionally lucky.
Alin Sav
If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?
Elie Wiesel
We are addicted to attention, but when it comes to paying attention, we are not accessible.
Alin Sav
In running, it doesn't matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, 'I have finished.' There is a lot of satisfaction in that.
Fred Lebow
I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination for dying doesn't balance out the serious decision to kill. That through the ages there has never been a great historical infamy committed for which there couldn't be found a symbol just as big, to justify it. That, in consequence, we would do well to pay attention to great certainties, to great invocations, to the great 'droughts' and 'rains'. That the temper of our most violent outbursts might benefit from a shade less enthusiasm.I could reply. But what good would it do? I have a simple, resigned, inexplicable sensation that everything that is happening is in the normal order of things and that I am awaiting a season that will come and pass -- because it has come and passed before.
Mihail Sebastian
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lies are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are prosecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must--at that moment--become the center of the universe.
Elie Wiesel
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
Emil M. Cioran
If you were to ask Jarod Kintz‬‬‬ what his personal favourite joke was, he'd say the one with the island. The big one next to New Zealand.-Stefan D and Jarod Kintz
Stefan D
We would be a few years younger,if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence.
Alexandra Vasiliu
If Samkhya-Yoga philosophy does not explain the reason and origin of the strange partnership between the spirit and experience, at least tries to explain the nature of their association, to define the character of their mutual relations. These are not real relationships, in the true sense of the word, such as exist for example between external objects and perceptions. The true relations imply, in effect, change and plurality, however, here we have some rules essentially opposed to the nature of spirit.“States of consciousness” are only products of prakriti and can have no kind of relation with Spirit the latter, by its very essence, being above all experience. However and for SamPhya and Yoga this is the key to the paradoxical situation the most subtle, most transparent part of mental life, that is, intelligence (buddhi) in its mode of pure luminosity (sattva), has a specific quality that of reflecting Spirit. Comprehension of the external world is possible only by virtue of this reflection of purusha in intelligence. But the Self is not corrupted by this reflection and does not lose its ontological modalities (impassibility, eternity, etc.). The Yoga-sutras (II, 20) say in substance: seeing (drashtri; i.e., purusha) is absolute consciousness (“sight par excellence”) and, while remaining pure, it knows cognitions (it “looks at the ideas that are presented to it”). Vyasa interprets: Spirit is reflected in intelligence (buddhi), but is neither like it nor different from it. It is not like intelligence because intelligence is modified by knowledge of objects, which knowledge is ever-changing whereas purusha commands uninterrupted knowledge, in some sort it is knowledge. On the other hand, purusha is not completely different from buddhi, for, although it is pure, it knows knowledge. Patanjali employs a different image to define the relationship between Spirit and intelligence: just as a flower is reflected in a crystal, intelligence reflects purusha. But only ignorance can attribute to the crystal the qualities of the flower (form, dimensions, colors). When the object (the flower) moves, its image moves in the crystal, though the latter remains motionless. It is an illusion to believe that Spirit is dynamic because mental experience is so. In reality, there is here only an illusory relation (upadhi) owing to a “sympathetic correspondence” (yogyata) between the Self and intelligence.
Mircea Eliade
What can we do to win these men to Christ?
Richard Wurmbrand
Sir, let me explain how I see this issue. Your supreme weapon is killiing. My supreme weapon is dying. Here is how it works. You know that my sermons on tape have spread all over the country. If you kill me, those sermons will be sprinkled with my blood. Everyone will know I died for my preaching. And everyone who has a tape will pick it up and say, ‘I’d better listen again to what this man preached, because he really meant it: he sealed it with his life.’ So, sir, my sermons will speak 10 times louder than before. I will actually rejoice in this supreme victory if you kill me
Joseph Tson
We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about
Edward N. Luttwak