We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

The being that I shall be after death has no more reason to remember the man I have been since my birth than the latter to remember what I was before it.

For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart.

The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.

His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

If we learn the most by our mistakes the wise have the most failures. While the timid and unfailing will always be missing true knowledge and perspective.

I really don’t get this whole oranges thing. It’s like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

The Way that can be walked is not the eternal Way.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.