Regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. the mind barks like a dog.
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love.
People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.
People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
People are not good to each other. Perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.
Our sins are manufactured in heaven to create our own hell.
Only the poor knew the meaning of life; the rich and the safe had to guess.
Only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.
Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.
Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they’ll spit on you.
