If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.