Oh, God, Wilhelm prayed, Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and...
Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody's business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them.
To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.
The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.
So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...
She was cuckoo about dime stores, where she bought cosmetics and pins and combs. After we locked the expensive purchases in the station wagon we went into McCory's or Kresge's and were there by the ho...
No, really, Herr Nietzche, I have great admiration for you. Sympathy. You want to make us able to live with the void. Not lie ourselves into good-naturedness, trust, ordinary middling human considerat...
I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more te...
For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel nobl...
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with...
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love, and if you are not cowardly and cannot submit to such terrorism as civilized peo...
The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.
Sometimes I wonder, I said, if people who are going to tell the truth shouldn’t make sure first that they can defend themselves.
Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.
She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil.
Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important ex...
Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.