49 quotes
I do not struggle against the world, I struggle against a greater force, against my weariness of the world.
Drawn and Quartered (1979)
"Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt." — This point in the Gita is my death sentence.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say?
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, man is an abyss." — I could not, alas, find anything better.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
Drawn and Quartered (1983)