“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”

We are all special cases.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

We are all born mad, some remain so.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they’re the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.

Infinite Love is who we really are and who we refuse to be. This refusal is our most essential tension.

It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.