Quotation Addict

January 2008

“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered… those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.”

“I learn it everyday of my life, learn it with pain. I am grateful for: patience is everything.”

“Because he loves only as a male, and not as a human being, there is something narrow in his sexual feeling, something that seems wild, malicious, time-bound, uneternal, which diminishes his art and makes it ambiguous and doubtful.”

“You are so young… and I would like to beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.”

Letters to a Young Poet
By Rainer Maria Rilke



“No life is a waste,” the Blue Man said. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

“People say they “find” love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, and it is never the same for any man and woman. What people find then is a certain love.”

The 5 People You Meet in Heaven
By Mitch Albom