When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, ….

I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue an accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, ….

What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps he had ….

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know th….

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking..

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a lit….

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously..

They slept profoundly, desperately, greedily, as though for the last time, as though they had been condemned to stay awake forever and had to drink i….

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game….

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness….

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object..

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have beg….

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow..

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest..

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foo….

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions..

Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference..

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal..

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better..

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's….