I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

I wanted to explore more of us and lose myself, I wanted it to be you and no one else" AP

When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

Whenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all.