"One receives as reward for much ennui,..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.”

“And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!”

“At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.”

“He who walks alone, waits for no-one.”

“The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.”

“Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.”

“The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.”

“The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.”

“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”