Suffering is universal, but it is also personal.

Death is not the end, but a passage to something we cannot comprehend.

We are all searching for something, but often we don’t know what it is.

In life, there are no easy answers, only decisions.

The heart is more fragile than the mind.

Fate is not always kind, but it is never unjust.

Hope is often a fleeting illusion, but we cling to it like a lifeline.

In sostanza chiedevo un letargo, un anestetico, una certezza di essere ben nascosto. Non chiedevo la pace nel mondo, chiedevo la mia.

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.

There’s no room for complacency in a life well-lived.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Sometimes the hardest part is not giving up, but letting go.

Time doesn’t change anything, but it can show us the way.

It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

Don’t mix wine and women.

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

Loneliness is the only real freedom.

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no spot is less habitable than a place where one has been happy.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Life is not as simple as we would like it to be.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

The fear of death is what makes life unbearable.

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

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest – thought, action – is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

I am never completely sure of anything, and that is my strength.

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

Ne sanıyorsun?Ay herkes için vardır,yağmurda,hastalıklar da.İnsan yeraltında da yaşasa,sarayda da yaşasa,kan her yerde kırmızıdır.

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

One cannot live by truth alone.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

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

Love is a dangerous drug, but the addiction is pleasant.

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 an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

The only joy in the world is to begin.

From someone who doesn’t want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

We are all alone, and that is our condition.

It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

There is no happiness without pain, and there is no joy without sorrow.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

The great lovers will always be unhappy, because for them love is great and so they ask of their beloved the same intensity of thought that they have for her – otherwise they feel betrayed.

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

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 balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

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

We do not remember days; we remember moments.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

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

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.