What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession! - Emil Cioran

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

When you love someone, you hope — the more closely to be attached — that a catastrophe will strike your beloved.

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that we alone pursue the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.