[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night.

It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

So, the fear of death might be described as the fear of not being able to become whom one had planned to be.

Sometimes, we are afraid of something because we're afraid of something else.

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.