43 quotes found
“I yearned for everything long gone.”
“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
“When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.”
“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.”
“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”
“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.”
“I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds be...”
“All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What shou...”
“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
“The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection”
“I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that...”
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I ...”
“It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.”
“For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.”
“Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.”
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
“In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.”
“Society. I felt as though even I were beginning at last to acquire some vague notion of what it meant. It is a struggle between one individual to another, a then-and-there struggle, in which the im...”
“After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.”
“I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!”
“I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!”
“Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.”
“At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.”
“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
