Memoirs of My Nervous Illness Quotes

“It was as if single nights had the duration of centuries, so within that time the most profound alterations in the whole of mankind, in the earth itself and the whole solar system could very well have taken place.”
― Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

“A fundamental misunderstanding obtained however, which has since run like a red thread through my entire life. It is based upon the fact that, within the order of the World, God did not really understand the living human being and had no need to understand him, because, according to the Order of the World, He dealt only with corpses.”
― Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

“When I sat on a camp stool in the garden in a black coat with a black flap hat I felt like a marble guest who had returned from times long past into a strange world.”
― Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness