What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

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.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.

Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.