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

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

What is written is merely the dregs of experience.