Quotes About Balance

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death.

To take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness

How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?

Yürek konuÅŸtuÄŸunda, ak?l kar?? koymay? yak???ks?z bulur.

Her life was split. Both day and night were competing for her.

No veía una llamativa desproporción entre la insignificancia de la causa y la enormidad del acto? ¿Acaso no sabía si lo que proyectaba hacer era excesivo? Sí, pero precisamente lo que le atraía era el exceso. No quería ser razonable. No quería ser comedida. No quería medir, no quería razonar. Admiraba su propia pasión, aún sabiendo que la pasión, por definición, es un exceso. Como ebria, no quería salir de esa ebriedad.

Qué es el vértigo? ¿El miedo a la caída? ¿Pero por qué también nos da vértigo en un mirador provisto de una valla segura? El vértigo significa que la profundidad que se abre ante nosotros nos atrae, nos escude, despierta en nosotros el deseo de caer, del cual nos defendemos espantados.

It would be so simple to find peace in the world of fantasy. But I've always tried to live in the two worlds at the same time without giving up one for the other. I must not give up the real world even though I am losing everything in it. Perhaps it will be enough in the end if I manage one thing. One last thing: To hand over my life as a clear message to the one person able to understand it and carry it on.

When the north pole comes so close as to touch the south pole, the earth disappears and man finds himself in a void that makes his head spin and beckons him to fall.

Sería tan sencillo encontrar la calma en el mundo de la imaginación. Pero yo siempre he tratado de vivir en los dos mundos al mismo tiempo y no abandonar uno de ellos por culpa del otro.

?ó là cái gì bình th??ng. Và cái gì bình th??ng ??u ??p ??.

Sin saberlo, el hombre compone su vida de acuerdo con las leyes de la belleza aun en los momentos de más profunda desesperación.

Ama güçlüler güçsüzleri incitemeyecek kadar güçsüz olunca, güçsüzler çekip gidecek kadar güçlü olmak zorundayd?lar

Ingerii nu sunt partizanii Binelui, ci ai creatiei divine. Diavolul, dimpotriva, este cel ce nu recunoaste sensul rational al lumii divine. [...] Binele nu implica neaparat avantajul ingerilor asupra demonilor, ci presupune mentinerea unui echilibru aproximativ intre puterile celor doua tabere.

Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?

Quando parla il cuore non sta bene che la ragione trovi da obiettare.

el amor verdadero tiene siempre la razón, aunque sea injusto

Tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad.

The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.

Vertiginously close? Can proximity cause vertigo? It can. When the North Pole comes so close as to touch the South Pole, the earth disappears and man finds himself in a void that makes his head spin and beckons him to fall.

the dead far outnumber the living.

You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.