It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the fear changes into its opposite… The reversal of fear of being touched belongs to the nature of crowds. The feeling of relief is most striking where the density of the crowd is greatest

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.