"Narcissus and Goldmund" Quotes

You have to let things happen and feel that you're in a way, a mortal, and, in a way, an immortal.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

There's no beginning, there's no end, there's only change.

You are prepared to begin again. You are prepared to go on.

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.

You have only one mother, you can't exchange her.

Life is a long journey, with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

But the most interesting thing about truth is that it exists and must be discovered. Everything else is a matter of opinion.