Lou Salome Quotes & Sayings

Real peace is not just a matter of structures and mechanisms. It rests above all on the adoption of a style of human coexistence marked by mutual acceptance and a capacity to forgive from the heart. We all need to be forgiven by others, so we must all be ready to forgive. Asking and granting forgiveness is something profoundly worthy of every one of us, — Pope John Paul II

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either. — Lou Andreas-Salome

'What you doing in the club on a Thursday?'
She say she only here for her girl birthday ...
They ordered champagne but still look thirsty,
Rock Forever 21 but just turned 30. — Kanye West

It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself — Lou Andeas-Salome

Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself
only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone. — Lou Andreas-Salome

Marry me, Lou," Nietzsche bent down on one knee, his knees creaked. He peered over top of his glasses with a gaze of pitiful defeat. He had met his match with Lou. She was brilliant, shrewd, and brave. Taking risks that other women dare not.

"Get up, Friedrich," she responded, "You know that I won't marry you or anyone else. — Dylan Callens

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. — Kristin Chenoweth

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is. — Sam Shepard

I don't invent you
at sadly cooled-off places from which
you've gone away; even your not being there
is warm with you and more real and more
than a privation. Longing leads out too often
into vagueness. Why should I cast myself, when,
for all I know, your influence falls on me,
gently, like moonlight on a window seat. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression. — Lou Andreas-Salome

I stopped making films to look after animals. — Brigitte Bardot

Believe me, the world won't give you any gifts. If you want to have a life, steal it. — Lou Andreas-Salome

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain. — Lou Andreas-Salome

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation. — Lou Andreas-Salome

Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life). — Lou Andreas-Salome

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. — Francis Quarles

It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt. — Auliq Ice

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties? — Lou Andreas-Salome

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy. — Lou Andreas-Salome