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“If you really want to enjoy life, you must work quietly and humbly to realize your delusions of grandeur.”
“If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.”
Everyone has a self-made pass for travel through the terror and sadness of the world, and because, in the end, nothing is sufficient, everyone wants to share his own method, hoping for strength in numbers.
“Mortality is like the cold. It cannot be altered by human conceit or solidarity, and at the end you will be on your knees, in shock and amazement, and then you’ll have only one sword, one shield, one great thing to carry you through.”
“At the end, when no time is left, it will pass so slowly that it will not pass at all.”
“In death, time unifies. Old men on their deathbeds call for their fathers not because they are afraid, but because they have seen time bend back upon itself.”
“It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.”
“I asked myself, why do I love, and what is the power of beauty, and I understood that each and every instance of beauty is a promise and example, in miniature, of life that can end in balance, with symmetry, purpose, and hope—even
