Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

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