No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide..

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast..

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce..

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You we….

When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end..

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches..

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition..

I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and foot….

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal..

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

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is ….

We do not remember days, we remember moments..

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off….

The real affliction of old age is remorse..

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose..

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh..

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped..

One must look for one thing only, to find many..

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the exa….

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will..

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible..