His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.