Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

Once you label me you negate me.

My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

Don't forget to love yourself.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.