487 quotes
God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.
Tears and Saints (1937)
Everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
To have grazed every form of failure, including success.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
A Short History of Decay (1949)
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
A Short History of Decay (1949)
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
The New Gods (1969)
In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better.
History and Utopia (1960)
Buddhism – the ultimate attempt to put an end to birth. This is what nirvana is. "There will be no more birth", would say the angel of the Buddhist Apocalypse.
In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth". An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we emerge, to our universal chagrin.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
History and Utopia (1960)
Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Without its assiduity to the ridiculous, would the human race have lasted more than a single generation?
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
History and Utopia (1960)
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
History and Utopia (1960)
What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
If there was a God of sorrow, he would grow black heavy wings, to soar not for the skies, but for inferno.
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
You are forgiven everything provided you have a trade, a subtitle to your name, a seal on your nothingness.
A Short History of Decay (1949)