“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

We are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.

I was born and reborn continuously, different people draw different me.

Not for ourselves alone are we born.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Those who were born at the depths of one great crisis who would be able to cope with the next.