Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Nature is not human-hearted.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Live your life and forget your age.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye...until we meet again

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.