“I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.”

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

“Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

“Night is a world lit by itself”

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

“At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals a...”

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”