Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

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.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.