To have all the creative motives, your life itself must be full of content.
What you sow in your youth, you will reap in your old age.
To be generous is to give more than you can; to be proud is to take less than you need.
If there were no guests, any house would become a tomb.
If we confessed our sins to one another, we would only laugh at our little imagination. If we showed all the virtues, we would laugh at the same thing.
Desires are half life, indifference is half death.
Love that is not reborn every day, dies every day.
A woman who loves will forgive everything, but will not forget anything.
It can happen that a man ends his days out of the instinct of preservation.
Men who do not forgive women their small faults will never enjoy their great qualities.
Some people urge me to confess before them, so that they may have the pleasure of forgiving me.
Exaggeration is a truth that has exceeded its measure.
The fear of hell is already a hell, and dreams of heaven are already a heaven.
Being awake, we walk as if in sleep - some ghosts from past times.
Eternal youth is not possible; even if there were no other obstacles, self-observation would make it impossible.
It's all in a moment. It determines life.
Everything, including lies, serves the truth.
Shadows do not extinguish the sun.
A thought not expressed immediately and definitively loses its meaning; the written thought also always loses its meaning, but sometimes acquires a new one instead.
For a healthy person, life is, in fact, only an unconscious escape, in which he does not recognize himself - an escape from the thought that sooner or later he will die. The disease is both a reminder of death and a test of endurance. Therefore, illness, pain, suffering are the most important sources of religiosity.
If I am condemned, I am condemned not only to die, but also to endure to the death.
Life distracts us all the time, and we don't even manage to notice what it is distracting us from.
Art always looks at the personality in its entirety. That is why art is tragic in its essence.
History, this heroic homeland in time, no longer satisfies the Jews today: they have earned the right to a homeland in space.
He who has known all the fullness of life knows no fear of death. Fear of death is only a result of an unfulfilled life. It is an expression of infidelity towards her.
The chains of tormented humanity are made of office paper.
Coincidence exists only in our minds, in our limited perception. It is a reflection of our limits of knowledge. The fight against chance is always a fight against ourselves, a fight we can never win.
Happiness excludes old age. He who retains the ability to see the beautiful does not grow old.
What do I have in common with Jews? I have very little in common with myself.
In order for the theater to act on life, it must be stronger, more intense than everyday life.