I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

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.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.