Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.