What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.