It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.