In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.