Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.