“Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”

“You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.”

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”

“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”

“It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.”

“So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?''He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but there's pain in the fear of a stone.”

“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”