When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.