Valery Bryusov quotes

  • All my life I have preserved in the depths of my heart a live faith in my Creator, the Defender of the World, in His Sanctifying Grace and in the expiatory sacrifice of Christ our Saviour, but never have I agreed that true religion demands outward manifestations.
    -- Valery Bryusov

    #Heart #Sacrifice #Grace

  • Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.
    -- Valery Bryusov

    #Awful #Genocide #Massacres

  • Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  • No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

  • When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

  • I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  • The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

  • QUOTES BOUQUET: Three Things You Should Never Sacrifice: Family, Heart And Dignity

  • Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

  • This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly human culture... The basic attitude from which such activity arises, we call-to distinguish it from egoism and selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

  • Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

  • G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.