The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
There is not love of life without despair about life.
Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened.The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.
