Quotes About Creation

All of us, even the sophisticated, yearn for permanence, and to the unsophisticated permanence is the chief excuse for a work of art.

Porquê ter filhos? - perguntou. - Porquê ter sempre filhos? É muito mais belo que o amor termine onde começou, e a Natureza sabe-o.

und verstand nichts, nur dass der Mensch geschaffen worden ist, ohne Hilfe des Himmels Schmerzen und Einsamkeit zu erleiden.

He understood nothing except that man has been created to feel pain and loneliness without help from heaven.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.

Everything begins with an idea.

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Hakikatte kad?nlar, bu alem içinde ba?ka bir alemde ya?arlar. ?çine a?klar?n? ve büyülerini üfledikleri bir alemdir bu. Erkekler biteviye o alemi h?rpalar, y?kar. Kad?nlar ise yeniden üfleyerek nefesleriyle kurarlar o alemi. Kad?nlar, erkekleri de üfleyerek var ederler. Bir erkek, bir kad?n?n nefesi kadard?r; ba?ka hiçbir ?ey de?ildir.

I don't understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

Ever since I was a little girl, I was taught that my primary purpose was to become a goddess in heaven so that I could multiply an earth. I wanted that. I wanted to become a goddess with my husband... to be eternally pregnant and look down on an earth and say, "That's mine, and all those babies down there, I had!

The bed that awaited him was of his own building. And its name was "adventure.

Everything created in the world should be seen in the context of existing for God's glory.

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

Hope is invented every day.

would like us to do something unprecedented," Baldwin wrote in 1967, "to create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy.

Well. You can start painting now. Just get a piece of paper and a pencil. And drive the pencil like you were dancing

I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

That's what the army did, it created crises before any existed; it created a military emergency out of the void, the way God created the heavens and the earth.

To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising naturally out of tribal communion; but the soul, if such there be, is a god-made miracle and above all national or patriotic standards – the supreme and eternal reality.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth.