Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it.

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.