It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

I think it’s beautifulthe way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

There's the devil to pay.

Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.

If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.