Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

God hears every cry.

That’s what brave is, you know. Doing what needs to be done when you’re scared shitless.

Kindness is for all times in all situations - not just when it suits you.

I speak of the human heart, not a logic puzzle." -Diego de Gama

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

I believe that love takes time. I believe there is such a thing as infatuation at first sight, but not love at first sight.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.