Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Do you know of any more overwhelming and humbling expression for God's condescension and extravagance towards us human beings than that He places Himself, so to say, on the same level of choice with the world, just so that we may be able to choose; that God, if language dare speak thus, woos humankind - that He, the eternally strong one, woos sapless humanity? Yet, how insignificant is the young lover's choice between her pursuers by comparison with this choice between God and the world.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.

Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.