Shan Sa Quotes

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Tomorrow we will be nothing but earth and dust. Who will remember the love a soldier once knew?

I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.

To other women the choice of clothes was a form of ingenious exhibition, a shameless seduction. To me, dresses were like a breastplate that I put on to set off to war against this life.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

would you dare to love me?

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.

I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.

My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.