I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and 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.

He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.