Books are a narcotic.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.