“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.”

“Only through suffering can we find ourselves.”

“Who doesn't desire his fathers death?”

“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”

“For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.”

“I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

“Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.”

“I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,And with the other fling it at thy face.”

“Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?”

“Every why hath a wherefore.”

“For to define true madness,What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”

“If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.”

“The will of man is by his reason sway'd.”

“The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.”