There is no love of life without despair of life.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

I love Brad in every state.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.