A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.