We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
The way to know life is to love many things.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
