Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.
Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one’s sleep under so many lids.
If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.
That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things.
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Don’t observe yourself too closely. Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?
A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love.