What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.