No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.