“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”

“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.”

“If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect”

“...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.”

“To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.”

“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”

“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”