Quotes by Romanian Authors - Page 2

One day when we came to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought desperately over a few crumbs. The worker watched the spectacle with great interest... Years later, I witnessed a similar spectacle in Aden. Out ship's passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the "natives," who dove to retrieve them. An elegant Parisian lady took great pleasure in this game. When I noticed two children desperately fighting in the water, one trying to strangle the other, I implored the lady, 'Please don't throw any more coins!' 'Why not?' said she. 'I like to give charity...
Elie Wiesel
You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.
Mihail Sebastian
If you try to convert someone, it will never be toeffect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself,to be sure he is exposed to the same ordeals andendures them with the same impatience. You keepwatch, you pray, you agonize-provided he does too,sighing, groaning, beset by the same tortures that areracking you. Intolerance is the work of ravaged soulswhose faith comes down to a more or less deliberatetorment they would like to see generalized, instituted.The happiness of others never having been a motiveor principle of action, it is invoked only to appeaseconscience or to parade noble excuses: whenever wedetermine upon an action, the impulse leading to itand forcing us to complete it is almost always inadmissible.No one saves anyone; for we save only ourselves,and do so all the better if we disguise asconvictions the misery we want to share, to lavish onothers. However glamorous its appearances, proselytismnonetheless derives from a suspect generosity,worse in its effects than a patent aggression. No oneis willing to endure alone the discipline he may evenhave assented to, nor the yoke he has shouldered.Vindication reverberates beneath the missionary'sbonhomie, the apostle's joy. We convert not to liberatebut to enchain.Once someone is shackled by a certainty, he enviesyour vague opinions, your resistance to dogmas orslogans, your blissful incapacity to commit yourself.
Emil M. Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emil M. Cioran
If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
Arsenie Boca
People tell me I excel in Public Relations, what I suck at are private affairs.
Ioana-Cristina Casapu
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Elie Wiesel
He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.
Sorin Suciu
Immortality goes through dead before all.
Sorin Cerin
All my life, until today, I have been content to ask questions. All the while knowing that the real questions, those that concern the creator and his creation, have no answers. I'll go even farther and say that there is a level at which only the questions are eternal, the answers never are. And so, the patient that I am, more charitable, repeats: 'Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as in the answers.
Elie Wiesel
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Elie Wiesel
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei Codrescu
We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.
Sorin Cerin
Of how much light will my destiny’s eyes have to become aware until it will come true in death?
Sorin Cerin
The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world.
Sorin Cerin
The one who did not understood that his time’s root supports his life tree was born in vain.
Sorin Cerin
We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!
Sorin Cerin
We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.
Sorin Cerin
Not the measure of words is necessary, but their meaning.
Sorin Cerin
What shell did not feel the sound waves and which bird did not face at least once the wind?
Sorin Cerin
Do not walk away from death because you came out of it.
Sorin Cerin
Has anyone succeeded in being his own desire?
Sorin Cerin
Do not rummage through your thought’s drawer because you will be ever more disorientated than they are.
Sorin Cerin
There are not wings of dreams that have not previously dealt with the flight of black thoughts.
Sorin Cerin
If you combine the suffering’s great color palette you will find happiness as well.
Sorin Cerin
Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die?
Sorin Cerin
No matter how many snowstorms will pass through you, none will bring you the spring like love will.
Sorin Cerin
One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls.
Sorin Cerin
We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.
Sorin Cerin
I have reached this world’s dreams harbor as devoid of truth as any other soul that dreams it lives through knowledge.
Sorin Cerin
Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind?
Sorin Cerin
However deaf the ring of our love bells should strike they will eventually disperse this world’s emptiness clouds.
Sorin Cerin
Just the inexplicable wants to be understood within the nonsense of emptiness that belongs to this world of illusion.
Sorin Cerin
Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death.
Sorin Cerin
To believe in what you don’t know is as true as to believe in what you do know as long as life is an illusion.
Sorin Cerin
However much we would adore the past it will forever die in the future with us.
Sorin Cerin
Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.
Sorin Cerin
Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?
Sorin Cerin
What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?
Sorin Cerin
Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?
Sorin Cerin
All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.
Sorin Cerin
All the roads of life end in death.
Sorin Cerin
Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life.
Sorin Cerin
Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing is rather an active, persistent, violent refusal; an erasure, a destruction of form and of representation. The fundamental essence of the death instinct, the instinct that destroys all psychic structure is apparent in this phenomenon. . . . The death drive is against knowing and against the developing of knowledge and elaborating [it].
Dori Laub
Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whether the inhabitants of Hiroshima were more aware of the evolution of science than ancient man facing an on-storming battle chariot.It isn't physics that will make this a better life, nor chemistry, nor sociology. Physics may be used to atom-bomb a nation and chemistry may be used to poison a city and sociology has been used to drive people and classes against classes. Science is only an instrument, no more than a stick or fire or water that can be used to lean on or light or refresh, and also can be used to flail or burn or drown. Knowledge without morals is a beast on the loose.
Dagobert D. Runes
Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald, I became very ill; some sort of poisoning. I was transferred to a hospital and spent two weeks between life and death.One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
Elie Wiesel
When clouds will become heavier than the land in us led our entire life by the steps of our Destiny, we will understand that not their moments’ rain has darkened the sun of our life, but the failure to be ourselves.
Sorin Cerin
From this Legionary school a new man will have to emerge, a man with heroic qualities; a giant of our history to do battle and win over all the enemies of our Fatherland, his battle and victory having to extend even beyond the material world into the realm of invisible enemies, the powers of evil. Everything that our mind can imagine as more beautiful spiritually; everything the proudest that our race can produce, greater, more just, more powerful, wiser, purer, more diligent and more heroic, this is what the Legionary school must give us! A man in whom all the possibilities of human grandeur that are implanted by God in the blood of our people be developed to the maximum. This hero, the product of Legionary education, will also know how to elaborate programs; will also know how to solve the Jewish problem; will also know how to organize the state well; will also know how to convince other Romanians; and if not, he will know how to win, for that is why he is a hero. This hero, this Legionary of bravery, labour, and justice, with the powers God implanted in his soul, will lead our Fatherland on the road of its glory.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Equilibrium is the state of death, only chaos produces lifeThe Ancient Greeks have been driven to extinction by too much search for architectural harmony.
Stéphane Lupasco
Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, largerphenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease oftime; life, again, a disease of matter.Then what is normal, what is healthy? Eternity? Which itselfis only an infirmity of God.
Emil M. Cioran
Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.
Sorin Cerin
(on visiting the USSR after Stalin regime installed)All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?
Panait Istrati
Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become existent for the human being.
Marieta Maglas
Generally, the lie is a denatured truth.Drama occurs when this truth is still nonexistent, and it must become exitent for the human being.
Marieta Maglas
Generally, the lie is a denatured truth. Drama occurs when this truth is still non- existent for the majority of human beings, and it is denatured before becoming existent as an important element of the evolution.
Marieta Maglas
When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.
Marieta Maglas
Photography is my other kind of music.
Romi Florea
No one is responsible for what he is nor even for what he does. This is obvious and everyone more or less agrees that it is so. Then why celebrate or denigrate? Because to exist is to evaluate, to emit judgments, and because abstention, when it is not the effect of apathy or cowardice, requires an effort no one manages to make.
Emil M. Cioran
A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.
Corina Abdulahm-Negura
We are angrier with the sky than with our actions.
Sorin Cerin