That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

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?

Not only can you decide to be great, you also have the power to determine the height of your greatness.

A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

Insanity is just a state of mind.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.

The soul is never perfectly secure from the influence of passion; the occasional tranquility she seems to enjoy, is rather relaxation than imperturbable triumph.

I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from