Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

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