Quotes on Secret Life

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.