It is sad to be an exception. But not to be one is even sadder.

- Peter Altenberg

God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.

- Peter Altenberg

For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

- Peter Altenberg

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

- Peter Altenberg

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and…

- Peter Altenberg

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

- Peter Altenberg

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a…

- Peter Altenberg