The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
The world has kissed my Soul with its pain, asking for its return in Songs.
No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
All that is not given is lost.
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.
The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.
Night’s darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable.
Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.
These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.
And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.
The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.