Rene Daumal Quotes

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

Rene Daumal

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• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Special

• Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Approach

• I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.

  

  Lorde
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Mind
  • Cat
  • Sight

• My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Writing
  • School
  • Father

• The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Learning
  • Prayer
  • Pride

• I didn't see him, but I heard the noise and wondered what was going on. It was great he came by.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Noise
  • Wondered

• I am deeply concerned by the current security situation in Kosovo. Violent incidents over the last few days have again led to loss of life and pose a grave risk to the cease-fire.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Risk
  • Concerned
  • Incident

• And the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Wealth
  • Rose
  • Feet

• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Moment
  • Handled
  • Patienly

• Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

  

  William Cowper
  • Fame
  • Poet
  • England

• You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Women
  • Development
  • Cases

• You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Error
  • Heal

• You’re the vodka I drink every night but I don’t ever get drunk. You’re the knife turning in my heart but I’m way too numb. When did you stop trying, when did I become so comatose? If love’s a drug, I wish I that I could overdose.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • You
  • Stop
  • Knife

• A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Error
  • False
  • Knife