"The only thing I am afraid of is that I shall not remain a humorist."

"I see it all, I understand it all, but I do not know how to bring it about."

"What is a poet? An unhappy being who conceals profound agonies in his heart but whose lips are so formed that when the sighs and cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music."

"The dialectic of despair is this, that the despairing self is unable to get rid of itself."

"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret both. Laugh at the world’s follies, you will regret it; weep over them, you will also regret …"