Kundera Life Is Elsewhere Quotes

#1. But who then was he? What could his own self really consist of? He bent over that self in order to peer into it, but all he could find was the reflection of himself bending over himself to peer into that self ... Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

Milan Kundera

#2. light of Spirit God sends it trials of suffering and pain so the gold of the Spirit may manifest. Surrender,

Jalaluddin Rumi

#3. I wanted to say something to him about regret, about how I didn't really believe in the idea of regret because it was always based on what might have happened. People always held up the now, the concrete now, and compared it to what might have been, and that wasn't a fair comparison.

Kim Culbertson

#4. Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

Carol Leifer

#5. Believing there is no God does not make the thirst go away.

Philip Yancey

#6. I don't understand the constant need to prove one's manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood.

Stacey Lee

#7. I regret having to play the role of Cassandra once more and having to disappoint the fresh hopes of certain ever hopeful colleagues, but there is no possible evolution in a totalitarian society.

Albert Camus

#8. We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.

Thomm Quackenbush