Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations? — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Jména jsou neviditelné stíny, do nichž nás ti druzí odívají a my je.” — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest? — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.” — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? — Pascal Mercier Creation Copy Share Image
Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We… — Pascal Mercier Awareness Copy Share Image
“Jsme vrstevnaté bytosti, jsme bytosti plné propastných hloubek, s duší z neklidné rtuti, s citem, jehož barva a tvar se proměňuje jako… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need them against the… — Pascal Mercier Beauty Copy Share Image
I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night. — Pascal Mercier Chance Copy Share Image
“Boundless openness is simply not possible. It is beyond our power. The loneliness of having to conceal, it also exists.” — Pascal Mercier Boundless Copy Share Image
What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely,… — Pascal Mercier Absence Copy Share Image
“Getting on an airplane and arriving a few hours later in a completely different world with no time to take in individual… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without… — Pascal Mercier Experiences Copy Share Image
“Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it… — Pascal Mercier Crossroads Copy Share Image
That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this… — Pascal Mercier Inspirational-quotes-about-life Copy Share Image
It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible.… — Pascal Mercier Absence Copy Share Image
“Should we be grateful for the protection that guards us from the strangeness of one another? And for the freedom it makes… — Pascal Mercier Freedom Copy Share Image
“...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different… — Pascal Mercier History Copy Share Image
“What else? Was this what came from thoughts of time running out and death: that all of a sudden you didn’t know… — Pascal Mercier Death Copy Share Image
Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Door intimiteit zijn we met elkaar verbonden en de onzichtbare banden zijn bevrijdende boeien. De verbondenheid is gebiedend: ze vereist exclusiviteit. Delen… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to believe that the decisive moments of a life when its direction changes for ever must be marked… — Pascal Mercier Decisive moments Copy Share Image
“After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and… — Pascal Mercier Books Copy Share Image
“One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences… — Pascal Mercier Addiction Copy Share Image
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
AS SOMBRAS DA ALMA. THE SHADOWS OF THE SOUL. The stories others tell about you and the stories you tell about yourself:… — Pascal Mercier About yourself Copy Share Image
“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes… — Pascal Mercier Failure Copy Share Image
“Z tisíce zkušeností, které učiníme, zformulujeme do slov nejvýš jednu, a i tu spíš náhodně a bez pečlivosti, jakou by si zasloužila.… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Encounters between people, it often seems to me, are like trains passing at breakneck speed in the night. We cast fleeting looks… — Pascal Mercier Dreams Copy Share Image
“O VENENO ARDENTE DO DESGOSTO. THE WHITE HOT POISON OF ANGER. When others make us angry at them- at their shamelessness, injustice,… — Pascal Mercier Anger Copy Share Image
“Proč mě stopy minulosti tak rozesmutňují, i když jsou to stopy něčeho veselého?” — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves. — Pascal Mercier Bears Copy Share Image
It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. — Pascal Mercier Humiliation Copy Share Image
Our lives are rivers, gliding free to that unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! — Pascal Mercier Gliding Copy Share Image
Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living. — Pascal Mercier Imagination Copy Share Image
