Certain Quotes

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.