The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one's friends, was the absence of scrutiny - the horror of living an unobserved life.

As a general rule, the less one’s sense of life fulfillment, the greater one’s death anxiety.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

He had never encountered a patient who did not secretly enjoy a microscopic examination of his life. And the greater the power of magnification, the more the patient enjoyed it. The joy of being observed ran so deep that Breuer believed the real pain of old age, bereavement, outliving one’s friends, was the absence of scrutiny—the horror of living an unobserved life.

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

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!

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

如果從微小的細節觀看生命，就會發現它多麼荒謬。就好像用顯微鏡觀察一滴水，發現其中擠滿了單細胞生物，我們會嘲笑這些生物如此急切的奔忙、彼此爭鬥。可是，人類在短暫的 一生中，也是由這種可怕的活動形成可笑的結果。