D. Simone Quotes
I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.
Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.
The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.
Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
I had heard blues and jazz all my life but I was never aware that it was associated with nightclubs and drinking.
The only person who could make me stop singing is the one who made me sing: God, the beauty up there!
If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.
It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.
We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.
If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade
If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.
Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.
From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped.