What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

sometimes I hate you," she said.