No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

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

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

An existence transfigured by failure.