tomrum

They all died in the accident of trust

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat

Do not fall victim to excessive idealism and believe that telling the truth will bring you closer to people. People love and reward those who can soothe them with illusions. Since ancient times, humanity has only punished those who speak the truth. If you want to stay among people, share their illusions. The truth is spoken only by those who are ready to depart.

The obsessive desire to know yourself is itself a pathology. You're not healed when you wholly understand yourself but when you don't matter to yourself anymore. You're healed once you internalize you must fight for something bigger than yourself: you fight for your family; you fight for love; you fight for art; you fight for meaning. Maybe you fight for political change or perhaps you're a fanatical writer or scientist. The real goal of psychoanalysis is paradoxical; it's precisely to liberate you from yourself-to bring you to the point where you can finally forget about yourself and work for a greater cause.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

People have beautiful things to say about you, but you must die first.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Avoid both of them.

Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.

I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

We shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Unarticulated time is not measurable; strictly speaking, where there are no events, there is no time.

I hope some day you find someone who is as committed to you as you are to not understanding me.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.