He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.
They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives.
The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
The final conclusion of the absurdist protest is, in fact, the rejection of suicide and persistence in that hopeless encounter between human questioning and the silence of the universe.
Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still t...
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.
Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We live on the future: tomorrow, later on, when you have made your way, you...
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, wi...
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason...
I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my executi...
Catherine!Şu beylik lafı bilirsin:'Dünyaya yeniden gelseydim,' işte ben de yaşamıma bugün olduğu yerden başlamak isterdim.
But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.
But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have foun...
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.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
من بیشتر با شکست یافتگان احساس همدردی میکنم تا با مقدسین. گمان میکنم که من قهرمانی و تقدس را زیاد نمیپسندم. آنچه برایم جالب است انسان بودن است.
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what...
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for ex...