Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Tears do not burn except in solitude.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.