“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

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.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Live to the point of tears.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.

That is all there is in life – beauty. You find that and you have found everything.

The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.