The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.