Thomas Merton quotes

“The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.”

— Thomas Merton

“We do not exist for ourselves.”

— Thomas Merton

“Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.”

— Thomas Merton

“Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.”

— Thomas Merton

“A daydream is an evasion.”

— Thomas Merton

“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.”

— Thomas Merton

“October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.”

— Thomas Merton

“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”

— Thomas Merton