No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.