Adultery Quote by Umberto Eco

“For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.

— Dogen

“Monk had a brief vision of what it must be like to be a women on her own, obliged to work at pleasing people…

— Anne Perry

“Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier than those…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Monks and writers lead very similar lives. We spend our best time in retreat from the world, anxious to make something of our rich…

— Rougeau a Benedictine Monk

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then…

— Tenzin Palmo

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

— Poemen

“I you ask me about the monks, I speak from experience, not prejudice, and though I have no doubt that some foundations are well…

— Hilary Mantel

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

— Voltaire

“Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither…

— Gautama Buddha