The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.