Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it.
If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Beyond my body my veins are invisible.
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
The real “it is well” is something I say from the ground, having fallen.
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.
Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.