“There is something at the bottom of every human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love quotes. Especially the simples ones.
Phrases which pull back the curtains to the window of aonther's mind and shed light on the world in general. Dostoevsky is a quote monster! Sit down and read The Brothers Karamazov, or The Idiot and try your best not to feel like you now understand humankind all the better! You simply can't do it. And don't even get me started on Leo Tolstoy...
I like the quote above because it rings true, and somewhat tragic. What a sad fact it is that there exists in all of us thoughts and feelings we long to communicate but never will in our lifetime, in spite of all our efforts to do so. Yet quotes remain capsuls of truth - albeit incomplete capsuls according to Dosteovsky - which is why I love them so.
When I was little my mother use to read me a famous children's story called The Little Prince written by the French author Antoine de Saint Exupery. The story, which consists of a childlike Prince from another planet who injects simple truths into the lives of those he encounters, is surprising in it's insights. I recently reread the story and wrote down many of it's lines. So here for you are are some simple truths which continue to speak long after being spoken:
"When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey it."
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"Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far."
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"To forget a friend is sad"
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"Children should always show great forbearance towards grown-up people"
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"One loves the sunset when one is so sad."
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"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
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"Concieted people never hear anything but praise. To concieted men, all other men are admiriers."
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"When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanters a little from the truth."
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"It is lonely among men. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
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"Words are the source of misunderstandings."
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
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"No one is ever satisfied where he is."
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"What makes a desert beautiful, is that somewhere it hides a well."
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"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed"
(Of love)
*Note: In March I posted a blog which consited only of a quote by Dostoevsky. That quote is the second half to the one above. I think you'll find it a capsul of equal truth, and filled with hope.
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