Tadeusz Konwicki Quotes

#1. In our behavior, in the words we write and speak, we can become ambassadors of God's inspiration. Whenever we strive to lift up others in ways that are good and noble we are serving as radiating centers for God's inspiration.

Wilferd Peterson

#2. My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

Bob Hope

#3. The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#4. With every kind of birth control available in the world, abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you've failed.

Tammy Bruce

#5. We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#6. In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#7. Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#8. You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

J.K. Rowling

#9. The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#10. Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#11. Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. Character is a lack of doubt, character is stubbornly persevering in an intention no matter how senseless it is, character is a lack of imagination, character is inborn dullness, character is the misfortune of humanity.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#13. She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#14. Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.

Winona LaDuke

#15. I am free, anonymous man. My flights and falls occurred while I was wearing a magical cap of of invisibility, my successes and sins sailed on in invisible corvettes, and films and books flew off into the abyss in invisible strongboxes. I am free, anonymous.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#16. -I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels.
-What levels?
-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#17. Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey?
Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

Jordan Sonnenblick

#18. Ever been in Jail?
No. But I'm often alone.

Tadeusz Konwicki