I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.
That which you cannot express is Love. That which you cannot rejectrenounce is Beauty. That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.
To live. . . in any sense of the word. . . is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.
I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.