Monks Quotes

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.