“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”

“If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.”

“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

“To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.”