Quotes About Revelation

She was all that he wanted, all that he had ever wanted, even though he had lost track of that truth for a while. "James

Child!' Eleanor exclaimed. 'You didn't say there'd been a child!' 'I said a catastrophe,' her mother replied. 'And believe me, in cases such as these, the words are one and the same.

Life is so much easier if we get these little truths out of the way, don't you think?

My eyes would have told you everything you wanted to know in the parlor ... You would never have spouted that drivel about how I felt about Lily if you could have seen my eyes. Never.

After finding him in bed with Rosalyn," Linnet's father said. He didn't even sound mournful, just matter-of-fact. "New bed; we'd had it only a week or two." "My sister had many passions," Zenobia said fondly. "I thought you just said she was white as snow!" the viscount snapped back. "None of them touched her soul! She died in a state of grace.

And that was the moment my mother turned up, in character as a raving sociopath.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless but with time you see things clear and stark

There is music that seems to belong to you the moment that you hear it, and music about which you must be patient, awaiting the hour when it may reveal itself to you.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Adev?rul este ca soarele. Îl po?i acoperi pentru o vreme, dar nu dispare.

Emmaus-Damascus road experience?

Everything good or true that the angels inspire in us is God's, so God is constantly talking to us. He talks very differently, though, to one person than to another.

Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions—only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. … This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.

The initial revelation of any monastery: everything is nothing. Thus begin all mysticisms. It is less than one step from nothing to God, for God is the positive expression of nothingness.

Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta. Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui nu i-ar putea creste decât aripi negre si grele, pentru a zbura nu înspre ceruri, ci în infern.

Having discovered, at the end of her efforts, the realm of non-will, she rejoices, for she knows now that her ruin conceals a pleasure principle, and she intends to profit by it. Abandonment enchants and fulfills her. Time continues to pass? She is not at all alarmed; let others bother about time; it is their business: they do not guess what relief there can be in wallowing in a present that leads nowhere …

umiremo srazmerno broju rechi koje razbacujemo svuda oko sebe.oni koji govore nemaju tajni. a svi govorimo. izdajemo se, krchmimo dushu; svako se, kao dzhelat neizrecivog, upinje da unishti sve tajne, pochev od sopstvenih.

Extazul muzical este o revenire la identitate, la origi-nar, la r?d?cinile primare ale existenÅ£ei. În el r?mâne numai ritmul pur al existenÅ£ei, curentul imanent ÅŸi or-ganic al vieÅ£ii. Aud viaÅ£a. De aici încep toate revelaÅ£iile.

C? s-a spus totul, c? nu mai e nimic de spus — o ÅŸtim, o simÅ£im. Dar ceea ce simÅ£im mai puÅ£in e c? aceast? eviden?? confer? limbajului un statut straniu, chiar îngrijor?tor, care-l elibereaz?. Cuvintele sunt în sfîrÅŸit salvate, pentru c? au încetat s? tr?iasc?.

I dream of an ideal confessor to tell everything to, spill it all: I dream of a blasé saint.

Every 'I' begins with a crack and a revelation.

Filozofia hindus? urm?reÅŸte eliberarea; a grecilor, cu excepÅ£ia lui Pyrrhon, a lui Epicur ÅŸi a câtorva inclasificabili, este decepÅ£ionat?: nu caut? decât adev?rul.

S? faci dou? zile de drum ca sa fugi de Paris, ÅŸi s? reg?seÅŸti radioul, tranzistorul etc, tot ce detestai cînd ai plecat.