To live without hope is to cease to live.
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something
better, and I will follow you.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes
gradually into quiet tender joy.
Beauty will save the world.
The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its
attractions.
The soul is healed by being with children.
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear
most.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show
no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is
hardly worth troubling about.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and
agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to
worship.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole
lifetime?
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in
dreams.
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought,
every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that
springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to
others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were
explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something
left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and
remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without
communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time
immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and
the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
CRIME and PUNISHMENT
Be the sun and all will see you.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for
saying something new, are extremely few in number,
extraordinarily so, in fact.
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take
the suffering on oneself.
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without
deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the
bank and set you safe on your feet again.
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by
thousands of good deeds?
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be
understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if,
instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there,
something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every
corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't
help feeling that that's what it is.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large
intelligence and a deep heart.
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to
compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances,
smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank,
interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my
attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my
laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous
despondency and once again start the whole process all over
again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a
wheel.
It takes something more than
intelligence to act intelligently.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear
most.
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in
someone else's.
A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
When reason fails, the devil helps!
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his
fingers from sheer cowardice.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the
grief, the closer is God!
