Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.