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

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

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

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.