I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other..

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it..

Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible..

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name..

A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish between its heart an….

Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!.

So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and….

We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash..

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly force….

Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces..

People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that….

Strangely, I heard a stranger say, I am with you..

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything..

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers..

May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make ….

She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyon….

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night..

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood..

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; ….

Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With y….

So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other day, Had a real foretaste of et….