Afscheid Werk Quotes & Sayings

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. — Haruki Murakami

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness. — Potter Stewart

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest. — William Shakespeare

The most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear? — Rene Daumal

Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and are threatened by faith in God. They fear only the power they cannot possess - the power of truth. So they resent the living example of the devout, especially the devotion of a unique people chosen by God. — George W. Bush

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance. — Sid Vicious

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong. — Martin Cohen

The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no ... The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur. — Victor Hugo

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause — Ibn Taymiyyah