Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.

Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly wishes... Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion that he might be reprieved at the very last minute. No one could yet grasp the fact that everything would be taken away. all we possessed, literally, was our naked existence.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.