Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

She had only two modes of operation: complete control or complete insanity.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.