It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.