Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth

May God deny you peace but give you glory!

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.