Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.
He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul.
With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.
Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the...
He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, fo...
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
Love those you hate you.
Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.
Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can al...
As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in his heart. To each of them it seemed that the life he led was the only real life, and the one his friend le...
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.
