“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”

Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong

You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee.

It’s hard to know who I am when who I am always swallows me whole.

Second chances, are filled with humans hoping for a third.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

For each person you encounter is also you.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

Family’s first, and that’s what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.