Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.