“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

I’ve never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

A million ways I have pondered upon what your eyes convey -but this time, I wouldn’t. -There is beauty in stillness.

We are all broken things. But there’s so much beauty in those cracks. And so much strength in those places we’ve mended.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them

If beauty can love the beast, imagine what she can conquer.

I dream about kissing you under the moon-lit night, under the beauty of thousand tiny stars. 

Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.

She is an all encompassing enigma of beauty and madness don’t attempt to tie her down.

Tend to your own garden and watch the beauty you begin to see in others.