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

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.