"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, and I think differently from what I ought to think. And so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

"I have had a great deal of experience with people, and I have found that they are all the same, only in different ways."

"The fact that I am not happy does not mean that I am not grateful."

"The fact that you are not here, that you are not standing before me, does not stop me from suffering. It only means that my suffering is not for you to see."

"Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."