I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

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?

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

Strong and healthy is the new sexy.