The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate.

Je puis nier une chose sans me croire obligé de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire.

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.