If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

I am too young and I've loved you too much.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.