As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I….

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.

Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, tha….

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pr….

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised..

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beauti….

In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more ac….

I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings.….

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by….

I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this ….

To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal..

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a h….

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the exp….

People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a….

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips..

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?.

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling..

Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utte….

Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, prin….

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today..

I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter wha….