Quotes by Pascal Mercier

Pascal Mercier

SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? … it isn’t only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?

Clever

Loneliness

Lonely

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we’re afraid of something else.

Sometimes

That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn’t it like magic?

Children

Laughing

Moving

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

Silence

Years

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

Distinction

People

Reader

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

Beautiful

Live In The Moment

Mean

To stand by yourself — that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn’t do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.

Guilt

Honesty

Temptation

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Creation

Discovery

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

Differences

Games

Play

We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

Color

Mind

Soul

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Bars

Bears

Beautiful

Book

Chance

Children

Clever

Color

Creation

Cutting

Decision

Differences

Discovery

Distinction

Dream

Duty

Facts

Fear Of Death

Feelings

Games

Given

Giving Up

Gliding

Glimpse

Going Away

Gold

Guilt

Home

Honesty

Humiliation

Imagination

Imagine

Important

Laughing

Left

Life

Life Is

Littles

Live In The Moment

Loneliness

Lonely

Long

Loyalty

Lying

Mean

Men

Might

Mind

Missing

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Quotes by Pascal Mercier

Pascal Mercier

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we’re afraid of something else.

That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn’t it like magic?

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.

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