It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious.

People live in sleep, do everything in sleep, and do not know they are asleep.

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

When you leave New York you ain't going anywhere.

I grew up with a truck. My dad had one, so I like trucks.

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

I’m always feeling death, and that is a part of life. When you know a lot of people, you will always experience death.

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

I get criticized for anything I do.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.