Monk Quotes · Page 3

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

— Dalai Lama

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

— Thelonious Monk

Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft

— John Coltrane

“Buddhist Monk: "Keep your eye on what's for supper.”

— Tenzo

I should have been a Trappist monk.

— David Blunkett

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

— Torii Hunter

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats

High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

— Douglas Adams

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

— Francois Rabelais

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

— Dalai Lama

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in…

— Nhat Hanh

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

— Edward Gibbon

'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.

— James Roday

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant…

— Jenova Chen

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

— Cecil Taylor

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk…

— Walter Map

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in…

— Satish Kumar

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will…

— Pablo Picasso

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I'm just more sexually attracted to women. But I'm really…

— Kurt Cobain

I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that…

— Anne Rivers Siddons

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the…

— Nhat Hanh

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord…

— Swami Vivekananda

Monks, we who look at the whole and not just the part, know that we too are systems of interdependence, of feelings,…

— Gautama Buddha

When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being…

— Rajneesh

In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast…

— Gustave Le Bon

A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is…

— Silouan the Athonite

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your…

— Paulo Coelho

I was spoiled by Monk's music because it was so good, so complete.

— Steve Lacy

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

— John Green

It is easy to become a monk in one's old age.

— Ethiopian Proverb

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

— Y'lan Noel

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

— Jon Gordon

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

— Nhat Hanh

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

— Austin O'Malley