What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.