It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound...
Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats. Guildenstern: No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.