The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.