Nadezhda Mandelstam famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.

  • Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

  • I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

  • American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

  • But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

  • Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

  • God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.

  • And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.

  • Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

  • This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.