29 quotes
As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
Tears and Saints (1937)
To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing
Tears and Saints (1937)
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Tears and Saints (1937)
Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.
Tears and Saints (1937)
...all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint.
Tears and Saints (1937)
Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
Tears and Saints (1937)
Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.
Tears and Saints (1937)
Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.
Tears and Saints (1937)
The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.
Tears and Saints (1937)