Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.

Imagination = nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshots of reality.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Our memories are card-indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

The mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy engrossed with oneself, ungrateful and malignant, and never quite in touch with reality.

The one way to get thin is to reestablish a purpose in life.