If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

I'm afraid that if my dream is realized, I'll have no reason to go on living.

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Death frees from the fear of dying

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.