Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires.
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey.
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence.
I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: