…freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to...

One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn’t want to go on living. Now I happen to own this rifle, which...

This is awful. I don’t know what’s going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been...

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible...

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man’s actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed by his reason and its designs; so that no...

He had stylized himself–life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

The wreckage of stars – I built a world from this wreckage.

Semua perempuan yang baik menemukan bahwa ilmu pengetahuan adalah bertentangan dengan kesopanan mereka. Ia membuat mereka merasa seakanakan ada orang yang ingin melihat dibalik kulit mereka–atau yang lebih parah! Dibalik pakaian dan kosmetik mereka…

If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before we can have a solid relationship with another, we must have...

J’ai envie de partir, de m’en aller quelque part où je serais vraiment à ma place, où je m’emboîterais… Mais ma place n’est nulle part; je suis de trop.

Personne ne semble avoir songé au fait que si l’existence est absurde, y réussir brillamment n’a pas plus de valeur qu’y échouer.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.

flair for research” and will be heard from. Yet I do not envy him. I would not change places with him if he discovered the cause and cure of cancer. For he is no more...

Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this...

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that...

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.

Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.

The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could...

You say ‘I’ and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it – is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say ‘I’ but...

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to...

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Hiçbir şey değişmedi, ama yine de her şey başka bir biçimde var olup gidiyor. Anlatamıyorum. Bulantıya benziyor bu, ama aynı zamanda onun tam tersi.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda.

…he said firmly, “God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.” “Obviously,” I replied, “they were at liberty to do so, if they...

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at...

All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is...

Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but...

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.–jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

That’s the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and...

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to...

I know we didn’t accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being able to embrace each other....

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

kepuasan diri melindungi orang bahkan dari terkena pilek. pernahkah seorang perempuan yang tahu bahwa ia berpakaian pantas terkena pilek? saya asumsikan dia hampir tidak berpakaian samasekali