Werde Quotes

#1. A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good.
"Werde, der du bist, as he would have it," Dr Kellet continued ... "It means become who you are," he said.

Kate Atkinson

#2. Real freedom cannot exist alongside false freedom, but the abandonment of false freedom looks as if it would leave you as good as dead. But this is the secret of Goethe's Stirb und werde, "Die and come to life." For the job of compassion in a sick society only the dead need apply.

Alan W. Watts

#3. We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

#4. By refraining from reducing multiplication to addition we are enabled through these axioms to banish continuity, which is so difficult to fix precisely, from the logical structure of geometry.

Hermann Weyl

#5. The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.

Bill Murray

#6. I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the melanaemia, i.e., the formation of black pigment in the blood of patients affected by malaria.

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

#7. There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates have performed better than they have in years. For the moment, today, as you read this, the Democratic candidates are the jokes.

Matthew Continetti

#8. Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part ... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.

Sarah Mlynowski

#9. All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Emile M. Cioran

#10. I had remained hopeful that, among the millions on this Earth, there might be a few who could summon the courage to know me for what I am and have the self-confidence to still walk part of this life with me.

Dean Koontz

#11. It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people's shit?

Miles Davis