We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.