580 quotes found
“Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence”
“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”
“It is better to burn than to disappear.”
“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”
“One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it”
“When I look at my life and at the secret color which it has, I feel as if tears were trembling in my heart. I am just as much the lips that I have kissed as the nights spent in the 'House before th...”
“...if the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me...”
“I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.”
“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
“O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took ...”
“There is only one class of men, the privileged class”
“Stupidity has a knack for getting its way.”
“Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.”
“In medical science, as in daily life, it was unwise to jump to conclusions”
“We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.”
“If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.”
“After awhile you could get used to anything.”
“Existence is illusory and it is eternal.”
“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”
“There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what p...”
