“In the end, one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”

“And so it goes...”

“There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.”

“Can I help you with something?”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.”

“If a relationship can't survive the long term, why would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today, and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved, and all the cities I have visited.”

“Do you think I'm pretty?”

“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”

“How did you die?”

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.”

“You know, there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.”

“There are no happy endings.”

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”

“Why is it I feel I've known you so many years?”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“Name one hero who was happy.”

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them, if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”

“What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person.”

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. One day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”