There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.