“I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.”

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Brevity – the sister of talent.

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.

For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Houses built on heartbreak is that what you call love.

And its true I needed you to break my heart to become somewhat of a poet.

We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.

Like the mountain, she rises above every challenge, every mistake, every heartbreak.

Ask me about the time you broke my heart and I’ll tell you how I put it back together again.

We accept love only to the extent we are willing to endure heartbreak.

Yes, heartbreak crushes you, but they also turn you into someone you as a kid always wanted to be.

Blue devils sing haunting melodies that echo within the chambers of my heart-this is how heartbreak lingers.