It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his …

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held …