He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.

The hourglass runs low.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.

When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.

Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

I wish to create trends rather than follow them.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.