Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
How good life is when one does something good and just!
My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.
I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.
Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.
The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.
Money is coined liberty.
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.
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