Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

there is no politically neutral art.

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one?

If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.

Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.