Arthur Adamov Quotes

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

Does anybody know what I'm doing up here?

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won't feel they're human anymore, to be proved wrong because that's the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.

A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself – body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.

Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.