Quotes
Words of the saints on faith, prayer, love and suffering.
I’m coughing! I’m coughing! It’s like a railway engine pulling into the station.
That’s the kind of hole I’m in, body and soul. Ah yes, what darkness! But I’m at peace there.
You dream of light… Go on, go on, rejoice in death, which will give you not what you hope for but a night deeper still, the night of nothingness.
It’s no longer a veil for me; it’s a wall that reaches to the heavens and hides the starry sky.
It’s very easy to write fine things about suffering, but writing is nothing, nothing! You have to be in it to know!
Don’t think I’m swimming in consolations; oh no! My consolation is to have none on earth.
This little glass is the image of my life… my life was not bitter, because I knew how to make my joy and my sweetness from all bitterness.