May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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