“If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.”

“Man is perishing. That may be, and if it is nothingness that awaits us let us so act that it will be an unjust fate.”

“Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.”

“The vanity of the passing world and love are the two fundamental and heart-penetrating notes of true poetry. And they are two notes of which neither can be sounded without causing the other to vibrate. The feeling of the vanity of the passing world kindles love in us, the only thing that triumphs over the vain and transitory, the only thing that fills life again and eternalizes it.”

“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”

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

“Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.”