He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

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

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I am not young enough to know everything.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.