All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

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

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up