When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
-
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
-
Siri Hustvedt
In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
-
Zadie Smith
The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.
-
Clare Francis
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come...
-
A.E. Housman
More Quotes By Knut Hamsun
It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.
The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word.. that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers.. One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word; one must be able to give...
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness .. a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic...
