It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!