“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.”

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

“To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”

“I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.”

“Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.”

“We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.”