George > George's Quotes

“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
― Marquis de Sade

“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
― Plotinus

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
― Jack Kerouac, Tristessa

“...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinucide din groaza de singuratate.”
― Emil Cioran, Cartea amăgirilor

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“Putinţa de a fi vesel printre oameni, şi mai cu seamă când te stânjeneşte şi privirea unei păsări, este unul din secretele cele mai ciudate ale tristeţii. Totul e îngheţat şi tu eşti risipitor de zâmbete; nici o amintire nu te mai poartă spre cel ce-ai fost şi-ţi scorneşti şăgalnic un trecut; sângele refuză adieri de dragoste şi patimile aruncă flăcări reci peste ochi stinşi.”
― Emil Cioran

“If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play