One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

- Sándor Márai

Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?

- Sándor Márai

You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you…

- Sándor Márai

It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong…

- Sándor Márai

No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insi…

- Sándor Márai

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our…

- Sándor Márai

There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.

- Sándor Márai

I have started to think that the great, decisive moments that broadly govern our lives are far less conscious at the time than they seem later when w…

- Sándor Márai

Time is a purgatory that has cleansed all fury from my memories.

- Sándor Márai