May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.