If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.