Benayoun Israel Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, I said, a lie is the way of least pain for everyone. — Jojo Moyes

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more. — Nicholas Sparks

I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. — Jerry Garcia

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books. — Penn Jillette

I think there's something we all relate to about ... wanting to get to our most primal self. — Vin Diesel

He loved me. He was a complex person with layers of percolating emotions, some of them spiritual, some tortured in a more secular way, and he burned for me. This complicated flame of being was mine. — Miranda July

C. S. Lewis introduced the phrase "pain, the megaphone of God." "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains," he said; "it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."3 The word megaphone is apropos, because by its nature pain shouts. When I stub my toe or twist an ankle, pain loudly announces to my brain that something is wrong. Similarly, the existence of suffering on this earth is, I believe, a scream to all of us that something is wrong. It halts us in our tracks and forces us to consider other values. — Philip Yancey

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. — John Lennon

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation. — Maximus The Confessor

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi. — Robert Frost