Occupation: Author Birth: June 22, 1898 Death: September 25, 1970
It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for..
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting..
Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!.
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost..
Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it..
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!.
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living..
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside..
Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what they are when they are a….
We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth..
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum..
But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, genera….
Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it..
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through..
Courage is the fairest adornment of youth..
Our knowledge of life is limited to death.
No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect..
With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement..
Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even m….
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sa….
we have so much to say, and we shall never say it..