Top 100 Quotes About Monk
#1. What will you do now?'
I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works.'
No,' said Rek. 'I mean, what will you do today?'
Ah! Today I'll get drunk and go whoring,' said Bowman.
David Gemmell
#2. I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
John Lennon
#3. The devil appeared to a monk disguised as an angel of light, and said to him, 'I am the angel Gabriel, and I have been sent to you.' But the monk said, 'Are you sure you weren't sent to someone else? I am not worthy to have an angel sent to me.' At that the devil vanished.
Benedicta Ward
#4. PFF, whatever Monk is more like Symmetry... so I am going to be there... so far you know where to find me....
Deyth Banger
#5. He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
Mimi Rogers
#6. She looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre.
Lawren Leo
#7. Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian,
Dalai Lama
#8. I'll put it to you simply: love is the enemy. That's my conclusion. We should all live in our little monk cells and never venture out ...
Paul Russell
#9. She understood he became a monk in order to be above those who considered his superiors...it led him to God, to his childhood's faith which had never been destroyed in him...
Leo Tolstoy
#10. The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.
Thomas Merton
#11. The world circles us with light. Yert during every moment of life we are entirely lit from within. - The Tattooed Monk
L.G. Bass
#12. My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
Alan Furst
#14. The old monk said, 'The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!' And
Francois Lelord
#15. Free of all responsibility or restraint, in the sheer obliviousness of dreams, he had lived like a happy pagan; and now he must go back to the drear existence of a mediaeval monk, beneath the prompting of an obscure sense of duty.
H.P. Lovecraft
#16. The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
Austin O'Malley
#17. I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.
Lenny Bruce
#18. Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.
Dexter Gordon
#19. A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.
Benedicta Ward
#20. In high school I was a jazz nerd, listened to a lot of Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk and stuff like that. Maybe in Harry Pussy I was listening to more horn players.
Bill Orcutt
#21. I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
Kurt Cobain
#22. Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.
Walter Map
#23. A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma
Tsem Tulku
#24. So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
Satish Kumar
#25. Monk... not monk but Andrian Monk makes mistakes if he makes then and we can.
Deyth Banger
#26. About as useless as a monk with a ten-inch cock.
T.M. Frazier
#27. When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation.
Frederick Franck
#28. The monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't ...
John Geddes
#29. He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.
Geoff Dyer
#30. In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.
Saul Rubinek
#31. I left Chicago many years ago to move to California. You can't help but live a healthy lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating chicken and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, like a monk.
James Belushi
#32. Think of the cold Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, or the monk who tries to eliminate all humor in The Name of the Rose, or the frowning Koran burners of Florida. Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.
Richard Rohr
#33. I once asked a monk how he found peace. "I say 'yes,'" he'd said. "To all that happens, I say 'yes.
Kamal Ravikant
#34. The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was
George Bernard Shaw
#35. A saint or monk can afford to be compassionate to all, but a leader or boss cannot always be kind. He may soon be without a job himself if he is unduly compassionate, and chances are, no one would show him any compassion then.
Awdhesh Singh
#36. My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.
Tom Baker
#37. I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.
Philippe Starck
#38. That's a strange hobby for a Church Knight."
"God hired me as a fighting man, Sparhawk, not as a monk. I fight whenever He tells me to, but the rest of my time is my own.
David Eddings
#39. During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
Alexander Alekhine
#40. ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)
Lew Welch
#41. The Trappist monk Thomas Keating once said, The cross Jesus asked you to carry is yourself. It's all the pain inflicted on you in your past and all the pain you've inflicted on others.
Brennan Manning
#42. I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.
Steve Lacy
#43. Chrysanthemum
Silence - monk
Sips his morning tea.
Matsuo Basho
#44. I've heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many meals, whereas the equation is reversed for a bowl of clams.
Barbara Kingsolver
#45. The monk made his evening devotions with slightly less enthusiasm than usual. It is one thing to pray; it is another to pray to entities who will search you out on the road and beat you across the head with sticks if you say something that offends them.
Neil Gaiman
#46. If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such a one is rightly called a monk. Not in vain does he meditate. He acts in accordance with the master's teaching, he follows his advice. How much more so if he cultivates it.
Gautama Buddha
#47. I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
Chick Corea
#48. One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
Sandra Cisneros
#49. I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly.
"Live," said the monk.
"You shall be revenged," said the fox. "The onmyoji who did this to you will learn what it means to take something from a fox.
Neil Gaiman
#50. The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he
Walter Bower
#51. There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
Rumi
#52. [A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five
seven
eighteen
forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... '
So it comes with all faiths.
Rudyard Kipling
#53. Man has always tried to rewrite his history but the mind is unforgiving, more so is time" - The Monk
Shashi
#54. A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
Harsha Bhogle
#55. Kick Book One Of The Jenkins Cycle John L. Monk
John L. Monk
#56. Each lift of his eyes, each parting of the thatched lip from the clean-shaven, must prelude the tenderness that kills the Monk and the Beast at a single blow.
E. M. Forster
#57. A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
Umberto Eco
#58. In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.
Charles Kingsley
#59. Asceticism for St. Anthony and others like him was never the end, only the means. Ward explains, "The aim of the monk's life was not asceticism, but God. It was important to follow Christ's example, to help the poor and sick, and to love the neighbor.
Norris J Chumley
#60. A man should be proud of his heritage - not arrogant, as if it made him superior, but happy to own it and live up to the best in its promise. Monk
Anne Perry
#61. A world of words where the black characters printed on the parchment he held meant more to this monk than the people or places around him.
Marina Fiorato
#62. pilgrimages or crusades. Even a monk must
Ken Follett
#63. The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#64. Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
Matthew Shipp
#65. They put me with a blind monk who taught me how to massage and to see again with my fingers. Now my fingers tell me more than my eyes used to, I think.
James Clavell
#66. The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#67. Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk
John Lewis
#70. The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he
Francois Rabelais
#71. There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk's patience, a Warrior's courage, a Child's imagination.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#72. A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good.
Tad Williams
#73. If you cry 'Forward' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
Anton Chekhov
#74. You can't kill Myron, Royce," Hadrian said, rapidly pulling the monk away as if he had found a child playing with a wild bear. "It would be like killing a puppy.
Michael J. Sullivan
#75. Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.
Daniel Marques
#76. my mother kept quoting Picasso's mother. "Picasso's mother told him if he got into the army, he'd be a general. If he became a monk, he'd be the pope. Instead he was a painter and became Picasso. That's exactly how I feel about you. So do, Rachel, what you love.
Katy Evans
#77. I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
Tom Waits
#78. Fate is a comfortable mistress, Wes, if you accept her demands." Fate, the mistress that four years ago had put him the hands of mercenaries who turned him over to the British to be tortured.
"Listen to the monk teaching me about mistresses." Wesley chuckled.
-Vitor & Wesley
Katharine Ashe
#79. I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.
Mao Tse-tung
#80. The Essential Discipline for Daily Use, written by the Buddhist monk Doc The from Bao Son pagoda,
Thich Nhat Hanh
#81. In monasteries of old, the monk's dharma, his purpose in life, was said to be this: to support the choir. In Latin, propter chorum. Literally, his life was lived "in support of the choir." He was not a soloist. He was not a diva. He was part of a magnificent whole.
Stephen Cope
#82. In reality the monk abandons the world only in order to listen more intently to the deepest and most neglected voices that proceed from its inner depth.
Thomas Merton
#83. Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
Gautama Buddha
#84. A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.
Barry Eisler
#85. With your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs under control, you can have as much as the richest man and be as peaceful as a Buddhist monk . You can experience inner-happiness and euphoric love.
Maddy Malhotra
#86. To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.
Nhat Hanh
#87. Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.
Dalai Lama
#88. I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldn't reconcile.
Rich Mullins
#89. I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
Greta Garbo
#90. Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"
Anthony De Mello
#91. This is where it starts. When they write the legend, this will be the first page. Some old monk will go blind illuminating this page, Makin. This is where it all starts. I didn't say how short the book might be though.
Mark Lawrence
#92. At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps.
I could not see his face. I only heard these words he kept repeating:
"Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know."
I knew instantly a great treasure had entered my soul.
Teresa Of Avila
#93. In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it ... For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!
Rajneesh
#94.
A priest? I said.
A monk or some such. One of those worker guys. Liberation theowhateveritis.
Theologian, said the other.
One of those guys who thinks that Jesus was on welfare.
Colum McCann
#95. He, Cromwell, says to his visitors, just tell them this, and tell them loud: to each monk, one bed: to each bed, one monk. Is that so hard for them?
Hilary Mantel
#96. Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of lack of ability or lack of ambition.I am not deficient in either of these qualities!
Og Mandino
#97. Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.
Dean Koontz
#98. Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
Hugh Jackman
#100. Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".
Charles Simic
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