it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61
I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.
So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.
If pain is truly love, for my family I die.