Life and Existence

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

We don’t know each other’s secrets quite so well as we flatter ourselves we do. We don’t always know our own secrets as well as we might.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

It’s a burden to us even to be human beings—men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

It’s a burden to us even to be human beings—men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

If you mean to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

Only the flow matters: live and let live, love and let love.

 

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

“Each man’s soul is his genius.”

Fun is like life insurance: The older you get, the more it costs.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...

Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R.

 

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R.

 

Life…is like a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink, the sooner we reach the dregs.

 

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

One should stick by one’s own soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge, one is the worst of traitors.

Deep meaning oft lies hid in childish play.