If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?
When reason fails, the devil helps!
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Without God all things are permitted.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
Existentialism isn’t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn’t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.