Maurice Blanchot Quotes

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

I see myself as having this innate weakness that a lot of times will get confused with kindness, but I know that it's often more weakness than kindness.

I know how strong I am mentally, how I work on myself.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

You can't run away from yourself

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Non- reaction is not weakness, But Strength!

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness