There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves. - Franz Kafka

You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, and at the same time that indestructible something as well as his trust in it may remain permanently concealed from him.

the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man