Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.