We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.

False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.

Babel because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Where there is no hope, we must invent it.

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.

You get what you get when you get it.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.