Kosmala Jacek Quotes

#1. You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything
and that's what so many of them youngsters don't understand.

Joseph Conrad

#2. Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

Hermann Hesse

#3. I know where I came from - but where did all you zombies come from?

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. It was nothing at first. Just a bare brush of lips to lips.

Amy Lane

#5. we know
from the beginning that the darkness
is beyond us there is no explaining
the dark it is only the light
that we keep feeling a need to account for

W.S. Merwin

#6. Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. Whatever Elly does - is useless, but for him it's important to do it. (regarding Elly Kleinman - Paul's grandfather)

Paul Kleinman

#8. Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Gabrielle Roy

#9. Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#10. I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.

Sherwood Anderson