Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.