No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.