Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.
Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.
Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living...To live is to find out for yourself what is true.
A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.
Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'.
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.
The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?
