...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

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

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

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.