“It is disgusting – Why must we have bodies?”

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present.

When you have a well developed body and you’re confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos – the trees, the clouds, everything.

If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.