Summon

Famous quotes containing the word summon:

“No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.”
—Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949)

“I, Zarathustra, the advocate of life, the advocate of suffering, the advocate of the circle—I summon you, my most abysmal thought!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“A writer who writes, “I am alone” ... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”
—Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907)