"Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été."
"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."
"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."
"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. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
"There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide."