💬 Quotes

"For even as the leaves of the trees, so are the generations of men; the wind scatters the leaves upon the earth, but the living wood brings forth more when the season of spring comes."

"I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before—I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my children."

"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy."

"Of all the creatures that breathe and crawl upon the earth, there is nothing more wretched than man."

"Hard is the heart of the woman who would have her husband forget his home and his country."

"On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job?"

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others."

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

"I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been for. All the suffering and the injustice, it will all wash away in a moment of supreme harmony."

"Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things."

"If God does not exist, everything is permitted."

"Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and perhaps cannot be fathomed, for God set us nothing but riddles."

"I was born for a specific purpose. I wasn't the result of a fairy tale or a drunken encounter. I was designed."

"My parents didn't want another child; they wanted a spare part."

"The truth is, if you really want to hurt your parents, you don't talk to them. You don't scream at them. You don't fight them. You just exist, and you make them wonder if you're ever going to be okay."

"I'm not a person to them. I'm a human pantry. When they need something, they go to the cupboard and they pull me out."

"Most people think they would do anything to save their child. But they don't know what 'anything' really means until they're standing on the edge of the abyss."

"I realized that the only person who can decide what your life is worth is you."

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else."