Shan Sa Quotes

19 quotes in 395 categories

• Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.
• To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I…
• I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.
• In the closed world of the gynaeceum, despite the gardens and parkland extending beyong the horizon, despite the insurmountable walls separating pavillions and palaces, the…
• Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and…
• Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.
• Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be…
• I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth…
• Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?
• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly…
• Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more…
• would you dare to love me?
• I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal…
• The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers…
• Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though,…
• Politicians are better liars than writers.
• I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.
• I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.
• I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Browse Shan Sa Quotes by Category