Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
Death is a mirror which reflects the vain gesticulations of the living. The whole motley confusion of acts, occasions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end. The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)