Status Updates From Stories of God

“The things we experience often cannot be expressed, and any one who insists on telling them nevertheless, is bound to make mistakes”

“How lovely is youth, that delights us, yet who would hold it? Youth flees and regrets, and if one would be merry, let him be so today, of tomorrow there is no certainty.”

“But in the realm of time, by day, among the many, where so much comes and goes, often before one has got into real touch with it, it is not at all possible to carry through such loving; events rush in from all sides, and chance opens every door to them.”

“To love is to accept nothing, from anywhere, to forget everything and to want to receive everything from one person, both that which one already had and all else.”

“Death. What do we know of it? Apparently everything and perhaps nothing.”

"In the words with which we speak, everything becomes a fairy-tale, for in them it can never have happened.”

“There is no Justice more in the world. Justice, who can find her? There is no Justice more in the world: for all Justice has become subject to the laws of Injustice.”

“I imagine one can never tell whether God is in a story before one has finished it completely.”

“If some one knows a real story, do you believe that can remain a secret? Never fear, it gets told around, especially among the children!”

“For it is possible I might make a mistake here and there, because it is already so long since I have heard the nicest stories, and because since then I have had to remember a lot that are not so nice. That is the way it happens in life. But all the same, life is something perfectly glorious: of that too my stories will often speak.”