“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.

Music is important for one’s health.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over, smile because it happened.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones. After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus’ hands.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.