To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? Pascal Mercier More Quotes by Pascal Mercier More Quotes From Pascal Mercier What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? Pascal Mercier lonelylonelinesspeople I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night. Pascal Mercier tunnelschancenight [Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity. Pascal Mercier vanitystupidityable Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves. Pascal Mercier silencebearsmean Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! Pascal Mercier glidingsearivers Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. Pascal Mercier silenceyears It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. Pascal Mercier humiliationworstpain 'De nada,' replied Gregorius. The Portuguese couple sat down, the train went on. Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it had never stopped impressing him. Pascal Mercier realmorningchildren To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means. Pascal Mercier live-in-the-momentbeautifulmean What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination? Pascal Mercier parentimaginationlittles Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else. Pascal Mercier sometimes Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace. Pascal Mercier barsgoldfeelings We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken. Pascal Mercier colorsoulmind When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul. Pascal Mercier glimpsesoulthinking Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul. Pascal Mercier loyaltydecisionsoul We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others Pascal Mercier differencesgamesplay
