Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic - if it is pulled out I shall die.

It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.