life
“Man is the only animal that can be bored, that can be discontented.”
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”
“The meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour.”
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.”
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
“One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.”
“It isn't possible to love and to part. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
“We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives that are different and yet the same.”
“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“In'ards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.”
“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
“Birth, n. The first and direst of all disasters.”