"Optimism is a truly wicked way of thinking."

"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured…"

"The more perfect a being is, the more it suffers."

"It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race: for the whole beau…"

"The only thing that can reconcile us to life is the thought of death."