Quotes by : René Daumal

All the means we've been given to stay alert we use to ornament our sleep. If instead of endlessly inventing....

I think I possess because I do not try to give,Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.

I am dead because I lack desire,I lack desire because I think I possess.I think I possess because I do....

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place?....

it is very tempting, when you talk about the events of the past, to impose clarity and order upon what....

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is....

A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a....

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an imperative.....

This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.