“How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.”

“I have taken more from alcohol than alcohol has ever taken from me.”

“Humans think they are free, conscious beings, when in truth they are deluded animals. At the same time they never cease trying to escape from what they imagine themselves to be. Their religions are attempts to be rid of a freedom they have never possessed. In the twentieth century, the utopias of Right and Left served the same function. Today, when politics is unconvincing even as entertainment, science has taken on the role of mankind's deliverer.”

“Even after the entire world has taken me apart, there's still a part of me left for you.”

“Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever doesn't have, even what he has will be taken from him”

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”