To Lou Andreas Salome Quotes & Sayings

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

Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works. — Liz Phair

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

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences. — John Galsworthy

The internal and international criminal gang will either be forced to work or simply exterminated. — Adolf Hitler

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

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

But first, I want the pleasure of telling you that you are fired. I fire you. I fire you and all your relatives. I fire your ancestors and your descendants. I fire the very air you breathe and the ground you walk upon. — Z.A. Maxfield

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

Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny. — Kathryn Perez

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

Beginning authors often get in their own way ... They forget that they've been telling stories since they could talk. ... The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You've been doing this your whole life. — Cynthia Leitich Smith

The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty. — John Stuart Mill

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