Sándor Márai Quotes

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when we are reminiscing and taking stock.

London is a huge, stony desert: even boredom feels endless there.

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.