It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement.
He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him. And he would never let her go. . . even if she begged for her freedom.
Sometimes I don't want to go out and socialize; I just want to watch my favorite shows and comedians. But then I have to remember that it is important to participate in life if you want to portray real life on screen.