Quotes About Surrender

My isolation is not a search for happiness, which I do not have the heart to win, nor for peace, which one finds only when it will never more be lost; what I seek is sleep, extinction, a small surrender.

Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the sun is enough to make me suffer, how then should I not suffer in the darkness of the endlessly overcast sky of my own life? My isolation is not a search for happiness, which I do not have the heart to win, nor for peace, which one finds only when it will never more be lost; what I seek is sleep, extinction, a small surrender.

A quien como yo, así, viviendo no sabe tener vida, ¿qué le queda sino, como a mis pocos pares, la renuncia por modo y la contemplación por destino?

Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power.

RenunÅ£area e libertate.A nu râvni nimic este putere.

El amor requiere posesión, mas no sabe qué es la posesión. Si yo no soy mío, ¿cómo puedo ser tuyo, o tú mía? Si no poseo mi propio ser, ¿cómo podría poseer un ser ajeno? Si ya soy diferente de aquél de quien soy idéntico, ¿cómo seré idéntico de aquél de quien ya soy diferente? El amor es un misticismo que exige practicarse, una imposibilidad que es sólo soñada como debiendo ser posible.

Now the Nile gave him up, the eternal Nile.

To find one's personality by losing it — faith itself subscribes to that sense of destiny.

Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.

El arte todo, toda la libertad, consiste en someter el espíritu lo menos posible, dejando al cuerpo que se someta a la voluntad.

I desire what I do not desire and renounce what I do not have. I can be neither nothing nor everything: I'm just the bridge between what I do not have and what I do not want.

Note that the art of dreaming is not the art of directing our dreams. To direct is to act. The true dreamer surrenders to himself, is possessed by himself.

Outros haverão de ter O que houvermos de perder. Outros poderão achar O que, no nosso encontrar, Foi achado, ou não achado, Segundo o destino dado.

Abdicate from life in order not to abdicate from yourself.

Let us be as chaste as dead lips, as pure as dreamed bodies, as resigned to being both these things as mad little nuns …

To possess is to be possessed, and therefore to lose oneself.

No le he pedido a la vida sino que no me pidiese nada.

Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful.

Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.

You do not write the best you can for the sake of art but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God, to use or not use as He sees fit.

what you call my struggle to submit, which is not a struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy – – fully armed too as it's a highly dangerous quest