... I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little rather than with people who loved me too much.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

Outside the sky is light with stars

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.