Bruno Schulz Quotes

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

believe me. Sometimes when life looks to be at its grimmest, there's a light hidden at the heart of things. Clive Barker, Abarat

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.

Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it is an order the secrets of which are well guarded.