You get so used to being hit you find you're always waiting for it. (...) How can I say what it feels like? I don't know. I know everybody's in trouble and nothing is easy, but how can I explain to yo...
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love wil...
The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the...
She knows Daddy better than I do. I think it's because she's felt since we were children that our Daddy maybe loved me more than he loves her. This isn't true, and she knows that now--people love diff...
Nothing is more unbearable, once has it, than freedom.
Nothing ever goes away
Maybe it’s because you see people differently than you saw them before your trouble started. Maybe you wonder about them more, but in a different way, and this makes them very strange to you. Maybe yo...
In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backe...
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
And the darkness of John's sin was like the darkness of the church on Saturday evenings[...] It was like his thoughts as he moved about the tabernacle in which his life had been spent; the tabernacle...
Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for example, that it is too much to suggest that the American vision of the world—which allows so l...
Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two undefined and currently undefinable proper nouns. I mean that, in the case of Africa, Africa is still ch...
Οι άνθρωποι που θυμούνται τρελαίνονται από τον πόνο,τον πόνο να αναβιώνουν αιωνίως τον θάνατο της αθωότητάς τους.Οι άνθρωποι που ξεχνούν παθαίνουν μια άλλου είδους τρέλα,την τρέλα της άρνησης του πόνο...
You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself! And terrifying that the terms of love are so rigorous, its checks and libertie...
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.