God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

If the law does not lead us to Christ and redemption, it will lead us to despair.

I used to be more glamorous.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

Do what you do with another human being, but never put them out of your heart.

One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.