Oscar Milosz Quotes

#1. Solitude, my mother, tell me my life again.

Oscar Milosz

#2. To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.

Oscar Milosz

#3. We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Ban Ki-moon

#4. I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.

Emil Cioran

#5. But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

Samuel Beckett

#6. Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#7. Simon Sparks was an oozing slug of a man poured neatly into a three-piece suit.

C. Robert Cargill

#8. It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.

Oscar Milosz