There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.