We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death -...

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.

Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory. She pointed toward the floor and frowned. I call it the top floor of Hell.

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

This was the first time I thought of S - that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself...

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty.

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

I create, therefore I am.

Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless.

I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.

Everyone living is doomed

He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.

I know nothing I'm doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I'm just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I'm doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look...

Because in the end, we die. It's like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: 'in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.'

And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe that of all its influence nothing is left but decay. Every advance...

This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living,...

Life in Oseyri was lived in fish and consisted of fish, and human beings were a sort of abortion which Our Lord had made out of cooked fish and perhaps a handful of rotten potatoes and a drop of...

But then again... perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

Smartass Disciple: Master, where will you go after your soul leaves your body? Master of Stupidity: What makes you think a soul will go elsewhere physically?

There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non - existence.

this free - man's prison known as life.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

All things die, she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey,...

Now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple compromise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone...

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

Death is a state of mind - many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.