Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again. - Emil Cioran

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness [...] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.

The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us, to be posted in the schools.