Saint Quotes

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

There is no sinner like a young saint.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis.

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn't depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

I'm hardly a saint.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

My basic philosophy is that no human being is a saint.