To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant cou...
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
همیشه روزهایی هست که انسان در آن کسانی را که دوست داشته است، بیگانه می یابد
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered th...
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.[]
He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnif...
Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.
Live to the point of tears.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.