Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.