I never wish to be easily defined.
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.
I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
Only the moment counts. It determines life.
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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.
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.
I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.
No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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