20 quotes found
“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
“Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.”
“Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.”
“Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.”
“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.”
“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 ...”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.”
“In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in wai...”
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all the other branches of learning. Learning...”
“Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.”
“I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.”
“Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of da...”
“I must go on living. And, though itmay be childish of me, I can't go on insimple compliance. From now on I muststruggle with the world. I thought thatMother might well be the last of thosewho can e...”
