The meaning of life is that it stops.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive toward it.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. ~ The Trial

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

June 7. Bad. Wrote nothing today. Tomorrow no time.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.

You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to do so and it is in accordance with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided.

Be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking…in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

You are free and that is why you are lost.