One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love--any love--reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerabil...ity, our nothingness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man--the ...one he used to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, un...called for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time--is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reality is a prison, where ... one vegetates and always will. All the rest--thought, action--is just a pastime, mental or physical.... What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defence against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering.... Tho...se who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it; breached your o...wn defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right an...swer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »