The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.