15 quotes found
“Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.”
“No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend”
“We practically always excuse things when we understand them”
“A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.”
“He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace”
“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”
“I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived according to the head, not the heart. I consider and analyze my personal passions and actions with a str...”
“LonelinessIt's Hell for us to draw the fettersOf life in alienation, stiff.All people prefer to share gladness,And nobody - to share grief.As a king of air, I'm lone here,The pain lives in my heart...”
“I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merr...”
“There is no feminine gaze that I would not forget at the sight of mountains covered with curly vegetation, and illumined by the southern sun, at the sight of the blue sky, or at the sound of a torr...”
“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as we leave social conventions behind and come nearer to nature. All life's exp...”
“I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no...”
“The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation”
“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from th...”
“I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never discovered it and was carried away by the allurements of empty, un-rewarding passions. I was tempered ...”
