“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don’t move on.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don’t know what to do with it.

All men know their children mean more than life.

It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.

When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.

Attachment is the opposite of healing.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.