top of page
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau

"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

Standard 
 Customized
"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."

Exlpore more Life quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Explore more quotes by Jean Cocteau

Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
Quote_1.png
Jean Cocteau
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
bottom of page