Lou Andreas-Salome Quotes

#1. Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Lou Andreas-Salome

#2. Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life).

Lou Andreas-Salome

#3. The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#4. The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#5. Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#6. If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#7. Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it.

Lou Andreas-Salome

#8. What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Lou Andreas-Salome