Then - Quotes
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.
When someone is searching, [...] then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal.
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Faith is all very well, until the real world comes along and snatches away everything that you hold dear. Then suddenly everything is thrown into sharp focus.
You are young, and then you are middle-aged, but it is hard to tell the moment of passage from one state to the next.