Quotes by Essayists - Page 109

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.
Dejan Stojanovic
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
H.L. Mencken
It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.
Dejan Stojanovic
Wherever I go, I meet myself.
Dejan Stojanovic
I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.
Dejan Stojanovic
To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.
Dejan Stojanovic
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?
Maurice Maeterlinck
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken Ammi
Charles Baudelaire
Cristo quería a los justos, habitaba las buenas conciencias, pertenecía a los hombres de bien, a la gente decente, a las buenas reputaciones. ¡Que cargara el diablo con los humildes, con los pecadores, con los abandonados, con los rebeldes, con los miserables, con los que quedaban al margen del orden aceptado!
Carlos Fuentes
Only God would adore his own death.
Floriano Martins
The world of an animal is reduced to its perimeter. Human world is reduced to its perimeter, but does the world of God have perimeters? If it does then it is not infinite, but if it doesn’t, it means that this is not a world.
Sorin Cerin
Are we the wreck or the ship of God's Word?
Sorin Cerin
Between world and animal are fewer questions than between man and world. How many such questions are there in God's Word?
Sorin Cerin
Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death
Sorin Cerin
What distances can be explored without God?
Sorin Cerin
There are no names that do not desire fame because we come from God.
Sorin Cerin
After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us.
Sarah Vowell
I can never feel that the Illusion of Life is a truth as long as any illusion reflects unreality; however, even an untruth is a truth in its turn.
Sorin Cerin
LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.
Anne Carson
New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.
Dejan Stojanovic
When following God, Zero we never find.
Dejan Stojanovic
The world is God's salvation.
Dejan Stojanovic
God is a cloud from which rain fell.
Dejan Stojanovic
Devil and God – two sides of the same face.
Dejan Stojanovic
Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.
Dejan Stojanovic
God is busy and has no time for you.
Dejan Stojanovic
Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.
Maurice Maeterlinck
I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.
Luci Shaw
Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.
Sorin Cerin
Does anybody know which are the thoughts of God, even if they are plants, mountains, sky, stars or whatever else?
Sorin Cerin
Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?
Sorin Cerin
Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.
Sorin Cerin
O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!
Sorin Cerin
Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.
Georges Bernanos
On peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'éternel confident dans cette tragédie dont chacun est le héros.
Charles Baudelaire
God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!
Sorin Cerin
I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.
Dejan Stojanovic
I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.
Marilynne Robinson
Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.
Dejan Stojanovic
How would this world be if there was not God? The answer is simple: it would become itself God.
Sorin Cerin
All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
Salman Rushdie
Why should I wish to see God better than this day?I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass;I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name,And I leave them where they are,for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.
Walt Whitman
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
Walt Whitman
What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.
Stanisław Lem
God is a book I can no longer read.
Floriano Martins
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never hide your fear because it will become your own God, hidden inside you.
Sorin Cerin
So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo.
David Foster Wallace
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
Emil M. Cioran
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valéry
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us is aware he's a material being, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and that the strength of all our emotions combined cannot counteract those laws. It can only hate them. The eternal belief of lovers and poets in the power of love which is more enduring that death, the finis vitae sed non amoris that has pursued us through the centuries is a lie. But this lie is not ridiculous, it's simply futile. To be a clock on the other hand, measuring the passage of time, one that is smashed and rebuilt over and again, one in whose mechanism despair and love are set in motion by the watchmaker along with the first movements of the cogs. To know one is a repeater of suffering felt ever more deeply as it becomes increasingly comical through a multiple repetitions. To replay human existence - fine. But to replay it in the way a drunk replays a corny tune pushing coins over and over into the jukebox?
Stanisław Lem
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
H.L. Mencken
I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is,
Walt Whitman
Nancy waded out to her own rocks and searched her own pools and let that couple look after themselves. She crouched low down and touched the smooth rubber-like sea anemones, who were stuck like lumps of jelly to the side of the rock. Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down. Out on the pale criss-crossed sand, high-stepping, fringed, gauntleted, stalked some fantastic leviathan (she was still enlarging the pool), and slipped into the vast fissures of the mountain side. And then, letting her eyes slide imperceptibly above the pool and rest on that wavering line of sea and sky, on the tree trunks which the smoke of steamers made waver on the horizon, she became with all that power sweeping savagely in and inevitably withdrawing, hypnotised, and the two senses of that vastness and this tininess (the pool had diminished again) flowering within it made her feel that she was bound hand and foot and unable to move by the intensity of feelings which reduced her own body, her own life, and the lives of all the people in the world, for ever, to nothingness. So listening to the waves, crouching over the pool, she brooded.
Virginia Woolf
Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?
Sorin Cerin
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
Paul Valéry