The eyes of my eyes are opened.
Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.
My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.
Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.