💬 Quotes

"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."

"Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is."

"The wood was at the center, the hub of the wheel. All wheels must have a hub."

"I’m not one of them, but I’m not one of you, either. I’m something else."

"If you know how to use it, you can do anything. But you have to know how to use it."

"Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future."

"Belief is both prize and poison."

"To be is to be perceived. And so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other person. Nature provided us with dialogue as a means of survival."

"What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"

"The weak are meat, the strong do eat."

"If you look closely enough, you will see the same soul migrating across the ages, like a cloud crossing the sky."

"I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church."

"When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."

"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race."

"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

"He was alone. He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wild-hearted, alone amid a waste of wild air."

"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

"He says that man’s life is a process of unlearning the truths that he seems to have mastered with such difficulty."