Tony Walker > Tony's Quotes

“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.

Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.”
― Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla

“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”
― Antonio Machado

“Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt --
O, marvelous error --
That there was a beehive here inside my heart
And the golden bees were making white combs
And sweet honey from all my failures.”
― Antonio Machado

“Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.”
― Antonio Machado

“I thought my fireplace dead
and stirred the ashes.
I burned my fingers.”
― Antonio Machado, Border of a Dream: Selected Poems

“Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.”
― antonio machado

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Only describe, don't explain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

“A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.”
― Wolfgang Pauli, Writings on Physics and Philosophy

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.”
― Joni Mitchell

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert

“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
― Frank Herbert

“Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.”
― William Wordsworth

“We read to know we are not alone.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I wish you’d call me Barcud – that is my name.” Harald frowned. “I considered ‘Nature Boy’ as a compliment, but if you don’t like it…” He looked upset. I sighed. “Well okay, you can call me Nature Boy if you like.” He grinned again. “I will, Nature Boy. Thank you, Nature Boy. Now back to these runes, Nature Boy.”
― Galen Wolf, The Greenwood Chronicles