Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I wanted to hate you, but I just couldn't.

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience.

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

Approach each task in your life, no matter how simple or how complex, with power.

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking.

Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.