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

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.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

Nothing in the world is worth turning one’s back on what one loves.

I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Don’t you dare die on me, Bob! I’ll freakin’ kill you if you die!

I dare you to watch this and not be changed.

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

At all times, Dare to be!