Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my assent, my loving understanding; then all is well with me and nothing can harm me.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.