“To think new thoughts you have to break the bones in your head.”

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

One always dies too soon – or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Life is a useless passion.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don’t know how many consciences.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

Nothingness haunts Being.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Forgiveness is almost the hardest thing that you could ever do.

Walking away from someone that you believe you love, despite them being an unhealthy match for you, is one of the hardest things to do.

Let Go. They don’t deserve you. They never did, and they never will.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

You need to take a break and celebrate your success no matter how small it may seem.

Never run back to what broke you.

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone to restore your energy.

Crying for someone you love doesn’t make you a weak person.