Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.