I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.