“Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.”

“I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.”

“But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking others, he turns on himself in order to inflict merciless tortures.”

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”

“Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!”

“Toate starile extreme sunt derivate ale vietii prin care ea se apara de ea insasi.”

“There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”