Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others….

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for i….

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward..

No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds..

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mat….

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all dis….

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell..

The truth is lived, not taught..

It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to des….

The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river..

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live..

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone..

The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fea….

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.

The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learne….

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wi….

The cup was emptied and would never be filled again..

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism..

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force..

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth..