"The Human Comedy" Quotes

I love the silence of the morning, before the world is fully awake and still wonders if it's really seen the sun.

We're all perfect, because of our perfection of being ourselves. We're all different, and we're all the same.

You know, some people have an extra sense. They can't see or hear better than the rest of us, but they have a feeling for things.

Happiness is not a thing to be pursued, it is something you achieve when you give in to what you are.

You can't be sad, or you'll be like everybody else.

There is nothing to be learned from war, and there is no reason to glorify it. War is evil.

The world is alive and nothing is ever the same from day to day, or even from one moment to the next.

Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

There's nothing about me that's special to anybody but you.