Crosses Quote by Nikos Kazantzakis

“The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I memorized new…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Here are the words that have brought me to a new understanding. Here are the words that will bind us forever. From this day…

— Lang Leav

For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other…

— Thomas Merton

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the…

— Etty Hillesum

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of…

— Pattiann Rogers

Sometimes the unsaid words remain in our soul forever. Some other times they are concealed and buried alive in the silence of our heart.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“Touch ultimate emptiness, Hold steady and still. All things work together: I have watched them reverting, And have seen how they flourish And return…

— Lao Tzu

“We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. However wrong we…

— Henri Barbusse

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like…

— Etty Hillesum

How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Lord, forgive us our sins; Lord, sanctify our persons; Lord, guide us in difficulty; Lord, supply our needs. The Lord teach us; the Lord…

— B Aguilera

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both…

— Rumi