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.

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

... 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.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t.

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

A world without love would be no world.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

I'd rather go for Scorsese and De Niro. I just think he was so much better.

We Hate William and Kate

A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.