"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

"The best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them"

"In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."

"And then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive"

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."

"To fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs."

"So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another"

"The tigers have found me and I do not care."

"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the "real" meaning of the sun"

"Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so."

"It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."

"...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back."

"Without literature, life is hell."

"What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."

"Life's as kind as you let it be."

"You have to die a few times before you can really live."

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

"Scent, sound or sight, beneficent, malign – Who cares if you’re a blessing or a curse, So long as you bring light,"

"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."

"But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?"

"If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!"

"Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage."

"The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality."

"As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life."