Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

She loosened her grip on his hair and lightly scraped her fingernails over his cheek to his incredible lips."I could kiss you all day."Laith's gaze intensified."All right.

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.Flavia de Luce

One day you'll notice something different and if you take advantage of that moment, you will be what you exactly needed to be.

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

I'm afraid of NOTHING except being bored!

To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.