Paul Bowles

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#humanity #life #life

If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they'll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#food

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#nature #nature

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#equality

If you could not have freedom you could still have vengeance. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#freedom

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ... ↗

— Paul Bowles

#faith #faith

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#age

...before there can be change there must be discontent. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#discontent #change

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#another #everywhere #living #manner #moving

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#behind #beneath #hides #horror #lies