“People do not really change; we are only undefeated because we have gone on trying.”

“I only believe in this life. And lots of times I have trouble believing in that.”

“Schau nicht in die Vergangenheit, träum nicht von der Zukunft, konzentrier dich auf die Gegenwart.”

“A soul protects itself from what it cannot bear.”

“We saw so many sad and helpless people. I remember looking at people on the TeeVee from other countries who was all drenched and scared and hungry and even though Mammaloose and I don't have lots of money I never felt like those people and never thought we would look like those people. Now we were the same. We are all the same, I guess, once we are homeless, once what we know is gone.”

“And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. "The Dry Salvages”

“We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad?”