If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

God is the pain of the fear of death

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!