I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.

Nos·tal·gia (n):A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone.

You can't change the past.....why bother?...linger too much in the thought, you only get pulled down....Tomorrow is yet to come...GET PREPARED, that is one day you can change.

Everybody wants to manage me; management is a touchy situation.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.

She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.

Leviathan is not the biggest fish; — I have heard of Krakens.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.