💬 Quotes

"I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew."

"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

"The river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only has it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future."

"I can think, I can wait, I can fast."

"Love is the most important thing of all. To understand the world, to explain it, to despise it, may be the thing great thinkers do. But I am only interested in being able to love the world, not to despise it, not to hate it and myself, but to be able to look upon it and myself and all beings with love and admiration and great respect."

"For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must be now not far off."

"Too much sanity may be madness—and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be!"

"I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose."

"Patience, and shuffle the cards."

"He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much."

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is."

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

"I wish I had the boy. To help me and to see this."

"The fish is my brother. But I must kill him and keep strong to do it."

"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while."

"My father did his best to get work but he was a man who couldn't keep a job because he had the thirst and the dignity and the sorrow all mixed up in his head."

"It’s a great thing to be a child of God, but it’s a miserable thing to be a child of Limerick."