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.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.