An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.