I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?