Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.