“When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we ar...”

“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”

“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”

“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”

“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snu...”