I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.