Paspoorten Quotes & Sayings

Is there any one among you who believes he can be spared the way? Can he swindle his way past the pain of Christ? I say: Such a one deceives himself to his own detriment. He beds down on thorns and fire. No one can be spared the way of Christ, since this way leads to what is to come. — C. G. Jung

If there is anything of which I am certain in life it is that I shall never exchange the liberty of my exile for the vile parody of home. — Vladimir Nabokov

You didn't show up ready enough, or fast enough, or openly enough for the idea to take hold within you and complete itself. Therefore, the idea went hunting for a new partner, and somebody else got to make the thing. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Let the morning keep what belongs to the morning, — Marie Rutkoski

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy. — Samuel Johnson

Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. — R.D. Laing