We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.
I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.
The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.
I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.
Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente.
One might have all sorts of reasons for avoiding people. It's none of our business.
I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.
How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.
Only sometimes at night when I think that you live now and are somewhere, I shed tears.
Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.
The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.
Only stories and magic really endure.
In a century or two this planet will have been destroyed by external cosmic forces or by the senseless activity of the human race. Human life is a freak phenomenon, soon to be blotted out. That is a c...
Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.
I've been so unhappy for years, so unhappy . . . I don't understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive.
Of course we live in dreams and by dreams, and even in a disciplined spiritual life, in some ways especially there, it is hard to distinguish dream from reality. In ordinary human affairs humble commo...
If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now t...
You can't magic yourself out of the situation, you've got to live it as decently and as grimly as you can.
Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.
What the cold light showed me was that my situation was simply unlivable. I wanted, with a desire greater than any desire which I had ever conceived could exist without instantly killing its owner by...