It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.