“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.

The need to be right – the sign of a vulgar mind.

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

We cannot and will not walk away from our obligation to at long last face the reckoning on race and racial justice in the country.

Boys laugh at what they put girls through – but they won’t be laughing when – they’re wiping tears off their daughters face for the same reason.

I hope that you will raise your face and move forward to make a new start in your life.

Evacuation centres should let anyone in who has come to evacuate, we will look into the facts and take appropriate measures.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.