Octavian Paler quotes

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.
-- Octavian Paler

#Pain #Next #Gaps

A life without love is like a year without spring.
-- Octavian Paler

#Spring #Love Is #Years

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...
-- Octavian Paler

#Sad Life #Inability #Emptiness

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
-- Octavian Paler

#Sad Life

The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
-- Octavian Paler

#Reality #Sad Life #Cry

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.
-- Octavian Paler

#Beast

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.