Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

God knows what lives in me in place of me.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.