Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then?
Can there be anything more stupendous than the [Hindu] conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly from growth to equilibrium, from equilibrium to decline, from...
But here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him...
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them for the most part humble tolerant and kind. Failure make...
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
Laugh while you’ve got the chance, you won’t laugh much when you’re dead and buried.
Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.
She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.
Passion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has its reasons that reason takes no account of. If he meant what I think, he meant that when passion seizes the heart it invents reasons tha...
It looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with...
If the future was so vague it meant perhaps that she was destined never to see it.
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving to their heavenly father to give them their daily bread. Do children beseech the...
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'...
I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority of mankind are led by certain rewards to do things which directly or indirectly tend t...
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?