Words

“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”

one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

I have time to think. That is the great, the greatest luxury. I have time to be.

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

“He who has a why in life can bear almost any how.”

“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”

There are times when your whole body stumbles and falls into gloom. Into loneliness. Everyone recedes, friends shrink from you, lose their shape, regroup in swarms of animosity. Love reveals itself as fraud.