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

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

It's better to bet on this life than on the next.

A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it.

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.