What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.