And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums... All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me... Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.