All Edmond Jabes Quotes
- It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to… Anonymous
- Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things. Ear
- The hand opens to the word, opens to distance. Distance
- Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion) Book
- What is not grasped has all the chances to become real. All
- In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night. Color
- Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood. Blood
- By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death Death
- One rose is enough for the dawn Beauty
- WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the… All
- THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to… Aim
- How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) Argument
- We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. Detachment
- The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. Background
- God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen. Book
- It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. Certainty
- I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He questions the words,… Accompanies
- The soul has words as petals. Inspirational