I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.

It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.