“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”

“Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me.Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.”

“He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.”

“XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud”

“Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's dark to me.We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing(whatever it is) that glitters on ...”

“LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.”

“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”

“I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. ...”

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

“To speak much is one thing”

“To speak much is one thing”

“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire l...”

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”