Daryushka Quotes & Sayings

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. — Lao-Tzu

In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength. — Montesquieu

They gathered after mass, sang hymns and read. Everyone had grown even more serene; beneath the sisters' kerchiefs it was as if there were no faces. When they met Daryushka - it was as if they bowed down lower. She was walking in the Spirit.

Daryushka was entirely serene. She was thinking of nothing, had turned within herself, peering inside; and inside her all was smiling ever so gently.

After the storm clear days came, frosty, crackling, clear days. Snow and sky, snow and sky, and the sky was even brighter, whiter, from the snow - and the snow sparkled with blue fires from the sky.

Daryushka went down to the river with buckets, to the ice-hole. She went down to the landing alone... Snow, and sky, and brilliance...

("He Has Descended") — Zinaida Gippius

'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could, well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.'And the boy did. And the tree was happy. — Shel Silverstein

we're not actually people at all, but simulations running on an ultracomputer built by other people. — Jordan Ellenberg

Everything is bicycle. — Stephen Crane

Sent from my CrackBerry Intergalactic Kommunikator that doubles as an Illuvian Disruptor Death Ray. — Bob N. Boguslavski

Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee. — Edward Everett

If you manage a situation, not just things happening there, people should feel elevated just being in that space. Above all, you must feel wonderful being there. — Jaggi Vasudev

That was for the hard-on I'll be walking around with tonight. And you'll goddamn wear the imprint of my hand on your ass for it. — Tessa Bailey

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. — Dean Koontz