Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their sou...ls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations--one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advic...e is this: do it or do not do it--you will regret both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt.... Doubt and despair ... belong to completely different spheres; diffe...rent sides of the soul are set in motion.... Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness ... they live, as it wer...e, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid mome...nt of enjoyment is accompanied by death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries ...pass over them they sound like beautiful music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuou...s. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye... which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »