Thilde Benz Quotes

#1. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Oscar Wilde

#2. "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

Thomas Aquinas

#3. My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.

Jarod Kintz

#4. Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.

Vernon Howard

#6. John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

Rupert Hughes

#7. I like to try new things.

Rufus Wainwright

#8. So let men turn their telescopes on the heavens and their microscopes on the molecules. Let them probe and search and tabulate and name and find and discover. I can dare to say to them, "I know the One who made all this. I'm personally acquainted with the One who made it.

A.W. Tozer

#9. If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Michel Houellebecq

#10. She's more of a 'standing really still and hoping nothing eats her' sort of girl.

Seanan McGuire

#11. Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Right Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]

Sylvia Boorstein

#13. Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

Samael Aun Weor

#14. Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi