Then came human beings, they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to. Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came the human beings, they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate - for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself. |
There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues |
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. |
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. |
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. |
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. |
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. |
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. |
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. |
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. |
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. |
Time goes by fast, and people go in and out of your life so quickly, so you should never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you |
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. |
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today. |
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others |