What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It's always up to you.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Maybe consequences are dear friends in stealthy disguise.

In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

Live life carefully but save time for fun.

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.