life
“The opium-eater loses none of his moral sensibilities or aspirations; he wishes and resolves as warmly as ever.”
“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.”
“And the days are not full enough; and the nights are not full enough.”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Apart from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world.”
“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Laughter is wine for the soul—laughter soft, loud and deep.”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
“None of us can help the things life has done to us.”
“Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”
“Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.”
“We do not live to think; we think in order to live.”
“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”
“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”