My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.