But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

The meaning of life is that it stops.