“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape”.

“Only the coward who has more fear of death than dignity can comfort himself with the fact that his body will in time live again in the grass, in the stones, in the toad. To find one’s immortality in the transmutation of substances is as strange as to prophesy a brilliant future for the case after a precious violin has been broken and become useless”.

“Real happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel betrayed God probably because he longed for solitude, of which angels know nothing”

“The past was vulgar and uninteresting, the future was trivial, and that marvel-lous night, unique in a lifetime, would soon be over, would blend with eternity; then, why live?”