... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say