My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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.

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.