Bassani Quotes

#1. Ibn Bassani, a Sufi mystic, all his life prayed, asking God to make his body the size of hell and send him there in the place of the world. I see my Lord Christ having done that for humanity.

Paul-Gordon Chandler

#2. Space and silence weigh equally upon the heart. A sudden love, a great work, a decisive act, a thought which transfigures, all these at certain moments bring the same unbearable anxiety, linked with an irresistible charm.

Albert Camus

#3. Even in a city as small as Ferrara, you can manage, if you like, to disappear for years and years, one from another, living side by side like the dead

Giorgio Bassani

#4. Speculation is a dangerous thing without any evidence to back it up.

Jane Casey

#5. They wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they - friends from childhood - had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over. . .

Leo Tolstoy

#6. In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

Giorgio Bassani

#7. I went to Yale's drama school for theater, so we did tons of Shakespeare; then, I got out of school and said, 'OK, it will be Shakespeare,' and it was like, 'Or, it will be commercials and soaps.'

Kristen Connolly

#8. It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#9. Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.

Roger Deakins

#10. Man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.

Jeannie Gunn

#11. Things die, too, you know. And so, if they too have to die, well there it is, it is so much better to let them go

Giorgio Bassani

#12. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

Ramana Maharshi