"I’m no longer the same hero to you now as I tried to appear before, but just a loathsome little fellow, a nuisance? Very well then. So be it. I’m very glad you’ve found me out at last."

"What would he have to live for? What could be his aim? What should he strive for? To live in order to exist? But he had been ready a thousand times before to sacrifice his existence for an idea, a hope, even for a fancy. Mere existence had always meant little to him; he had always desired more."

"Dostoyevsky used to watch his wife shit. He would take notes on her facial expressions."

"People speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man. But that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."

"I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as ridiculous in their eyes as before."

"Soon he sank into deep thought, or more accurately speaking into a complete blankness of mind; he walked along not observing what was about him and not caring to observe it."

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

"Existentialism isn’t so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn’t exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing."

"Can a man of perception respect himself at all?"

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."

"I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness."

"What is hell? I still maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."