To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
The strong must learn to be lonely.
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
The majority never has right on its side.
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.